Kind of untrendy opinion of mine: broad impressionistic comparative philosophy makes me think there’s something to a kind of “affect - reason” split after all. Not in every form (I still agree with this: https://aquarusa.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/incongruent-dichotomies-logical-vs-emotional/ …) but the following sorts of things impress me...
Just reading about the kokugakusha in early modern Japan, which arose with such sentiments as those pictured. Was recently reading about debates in 19th century Asanteman between a faction who favoured secular deliberation and peaceful trade, versus a religious military wing.pic.twitter.com/QWymOZZZ9p
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Also think of the Confucian - Daoist split in earlier China, or the much discussed Romantic reaction to Enlightenment, or even, being real, some elements of the analytic-continental split in recent history of philosophy.
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These are (obviously) not independent of each other, but it’s really striking how often something like this opposition between a passionate acceptance of mysterious will and a somewhat colder rationalism has some felt validity for participants in diverse intellectual cultures.
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