Eastern Enlightenment ("Erleuchtung") overcomes corruption by desire. Western Enlightenment ("Aufklärung") overcomes corruption by untruth. Both attempt to achieve integrity of the mind.
I think that from a philosophical perspective, each idea must be evaluated on its own merits, not as part of a culture. Cultures are substrates of memetic evolution, but it does not do thinkers justice when we reduce them to cultural identities. Every mind is a complete universe.
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Wait, what? Didn't _you_ just tweet a generalization about Eastern vs Western enlightenment, and didn't _I_ just protest that philosophical traditions (and, sure, individual thinkers) are more complex than that? At least one of us must have missed something here

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To elaborate: It is _very_ easy to read your original tweet as "Asians just naturally think differently than Europeans", or the like. I meant to counter: humans are humans everywhere, and thus every philosophical tradition (and individual thinker) is complex the way humans are.
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