According to a German philosopher, Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), philosophy is vis-a-vis to the Western orientation. Perhaps, others are right in saying, it is redundant to say Western philosophy. In fact, when one speaks of philosophy there is no need to distinguish it as Eastern or Western for automatically it is already Western in orientation for it originates there. One of these is Thales of Miletus (624-585 BC) who believed that water is the basic element of the world. When the word 'philosophy' is said, it is tantamount that it is a Western thinking. However, it creates a variation ...

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