Oriental Philosophy V/S

Occidental Philosophy
Group members:
PARTH KHANNA, ADITYA GOYL
MANSI ARYA, OJASVI TYAGI, STUTI KHANNA

Time Line

Ancient

Medieval

Modern

Oriental Philosophy means Eastern Philosophy and Occidental

Philosophy means Western Philosophy

EASTERN PHILOSOPHY

WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

Main Schools:

Main Schools:

Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Integral Yoga, Islam,

Taoism, Zen.

Christianity, Rational, Scientific, Logical Schools.

Main Principals:
Cosmological unity.
Life is a journey towards eternal realities that are beyond the
realities that surround us.

Main Principals:
Feeling oneself as an element of the Divine.
Life is a service (to the God, money, business, etc.)
Everything has its beginning and the end.

Self-liberation from the false "Me" and finding the true "Me".

Self-dedication to the goal (success , happiness, etc.)

Behavioural ethics.

Beliefs and Values:

Beliefs and Values:

The main values are success and achievement. developing

inner strength.

The true key is inside. His or Her ability to control and develop it
is of the highest value.

EASTERN PHILOSOPHY

Implementation:
Spiritual and missionary approach.

Goals & Key to Success:

WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

Implementation:
Realistic and emotional approach.

Goals & Key to Success:

To find inner freedom"The

and thought
freedommanifests
from worldly
attachments.
as the
word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into
To be successful in life and carefully using every chance.
And
habit
hardens
into
character.
So
watch
the thought and its ways with care, And let
"He is able who habit;
thinks he is able.-Buddha
it spring from love born out ofconcern
all beings."
LivingforPrinciples:
Living Principles:
-Buddha
Ethic.
Virtue.
"Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative."
- Aristotle

Eastern/Oriental Philosophy

Oriental
Philosophy

During the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism from Nepal also became a prominent philosophical and religious discipline. NeoConfucianism is a philosophical movement that advocated a more rationalist and secular form of Confucianism by
rejecting superstitious and mystical elements of Daoism and Buddhism that had influenced Confucianism during and
after the Han Dyn.
The period between 5th and 9th centuries CE was the most brilliant epoch in the development of Indian philosophy as
Hindu and Buddhist philosophies flourished side by side.
The major philosophers of this school were Gaudapada, Adi Shankara and Vidyaranya.

 Some Eastern philosophies have formulated questions on the nature of God and its relationship to the universe based
on Monotheistic framework within which it emerged.
Eastern religions have been as concerned by questions relating to the nature of a single God as the universe's sole creator and
ruler. The distinction between the religious and the secular tends to be much less sharp in Eastern philosophy, and the same
philosophical school often contains both religious and philosophical elements.
Thus, some people accept the so-called metaphysical tenets of Buddhism without going to a temple and worshipping.
Some have worshipped the Taoist deities religiously without bothering to delve into the theological underpinnings, while others
embrace the Taoist religion while ignoring the mythological aspects.

Varuna

Agani

Prithavi

Western/Occidental Philosophy

OCCIDENTAL
PHILOSOPHY

Medieval philosophy is the philosophy of Western Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages, roughly extending from
the Christianization of the Roman Empire until the Renaissance.
The history of western European medieval philosophy is traditionally divided into two main periods: the period in the Latin
West following the Early Middle Ages until the 12th century, when the works of Aristotle and Plato were preserved and
cultivated; and the "golden age of the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries in the Latin West, which witnessed the culmination of the
recovery of ancient philosophy
The medieval era was disparagingly treated by the Renaissance humanists, who saw it as a barbaric "middle" period between
the classical age of Greek and Roman culture, and the "rebirth" or renaissance of classical culture.

 The early modern era of Western philosophy is usually identified with the 17th and 18th centuries, with the 18th century often
being referred to as the Enlightenment.
A new focus on the foundations of knowledge and metaphysical system-building distinguish modern philosophy from its
predecessors.
Later modern philosophy is usually considered to begin after the philosophy of Immanuel Kant at the beginning of the 19th
century.
Within the last century, philosophy has increasingly become a professional discipline practiced within universities, like other
academic disciplines. Accordingly, it has become less general and more specialized.

The Thinker

The School of Athens

Oriental and Occidental Philosophers

according to the Time-Line

1.The Buddha

born circa 450 BCE, form the basis of

the Buddhist tradition.
Born rich, between India and Nepal.
Buddha means Awakened, is
conferred on an individual who
discovers
path to Nirvana.

ORIENTAL
PHILOSOPHERS
2. RUMI

Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi, 13th century

Persian poet.
Islamic dervish and a Sufi mystic.
He is regarded as one of the greatest
spiritual masters and poetical intellects.
he belonged to a family of learned
theologians.

3. Mao Zedung

Born on December 26, 1893, in

Shaoshan, China.
Mao Tse-tung served as chairman of
the People's Republic of China from
1949 to 1959.
Mao's "Great Leap Forward" and the
Cultural Revolution were ill-conceived
and had
disastrous consequences.

Occidental Philosophers
1. Plato

2. Pythagoras

3. Dale Carnegie

Born circa 428 B.C.E., a student of

Approx. 580- 500 BCE.

The first pure mathematician.
born on the island of Samos.
He was interested in mathematics,
philosophy, astronomy and music,
and was greatly influenced by
philosophy and Anaximander
(philosophy, geometry).
He found The Pythagoras theorem.

Born on November 24,

1888, Maryville, MO.
Born poor, a traveling
salesman before teaching
public speaking at a YMCA.
His How To Win Friends
and Influence People won
him a national following.
Died in 1955.

Socrates

and teacher of Aristotle.

writings explored justice, beauty and
equality.
the author of philosophical
works of unparalleled
influence in Western thought.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
EASTERN AND WESTERN
PAINTING

Eastern and Western Art

Li. cheng , Buddhist Temple in the Mountains, 11th century,

China, ink on silk.

Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665-67),

known as the Mona Lisa of the North

Eastern paintings

Bhutanese Art

Bhutanese thanka of Mt. Meru and the Buddhist Universe

Medicine Buddha painted mandala with goddess

Prajnaparamita in center, 19th century, Rubin

Cambodian art

Fronton Cambodge Muse Guimet 9972

Bayon Angkor Relief1

Chinese painting
Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qui
Ying(14941552 AD)

The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 11731176

AD, Song dynasty period

Loquats and Mountain Bird, anonymous artist

of the Southern Song dynasty; paintings in leaf
album style such as this were popular in the
Southern Song (11271279).

Indian Paintings
A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta.

Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India

Mother Goddess A miniature painting of the

Pahari style, dating to the eighteenth century.
Pahari and Rajput miniatures share many
common features

Japanese art

Four from a set of sixteen sliding room partitions made for a 16th-century Japanese abbot. Typically for later Japanese
landscapes, the main focus is on a feature in the foreground

Hiroshige, Snow falling on a town, c.1833, Ukiyo-e print

Western paintings

Egypt, Greece and Rome

Sennedjem plows his fields with a pair of oxen, c. 1200 BC

Boscoreale Roman art

Symposium scene in the Tomb of the Diver at Paestum, circa 480 BC Greek art

Middle Ages

Cotton Genesis A miniature of

Abraham Meeting Angels

Byzantine icon, 6th century

Book of Kells

Chora Church
Evangelist portrait

Simone Martini

Yaroslavl gospel

Giotto Cruxifixion

Bonaventura Berlinghieri, St Francis of Assisi,

1235

Renaissance and Mannerism

Fra Angelico
The Mona Lisa
By leonardo Vinci
Madonna and
Child Filippo Lippi

Michelangelo Creation of Adam

18th and 19th centuries: Neo-classicism, History painting,

Romanticism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism

David The Death of Socrates Jacques-Louis David 1787

Bonaparte visitant les pestifrs de Jaffa Antoine-Jean Gros, 1804

Watson and the shark John Singleton Copley 1778

Jean_Louis Thodore Gricault 1819

Differences

Yang Zhi , Horizontal Chinese Landscape Painting of Waterfall

Scenery, 1979
Byzantine, 6th century

Differences
EASTERN PAINTING

WESTERN PAINTING
Aesthetic basis

Painters always embed their personal feelings and emotions

paintings are affected by the faith of christianism.

Rather than just depict the details and exact appearance of

the object.

God is the creator painters always seek the trace of Gods

presence

As a result, viewers can see a lot of white spaces and broad

strokes.

Areas of the white paper voids are always to be found in

Chinese painting and calligraphy, they are an integral part.

strategy is to shorten the distance between viewers and

painting and make viewers to be involved into his paintings.

As a result realistic natural scene is kind of contribution to

the God.

Technique of expression
Composition
The use of stroke and line are the main expression.

create the realistic scene as much as possible.

EASTERN PAINTING
A conventional method in landscape painting is to classify
all the natural elements into the part of host and guests in
order to reach the balance of the composition.

WESTERN PAINTING

Objectively depict color, appearance ,relationship between

the light and shadow ,viewers to feel they are surrounded
by the environment and atmosphere that painter created.

Composition is referred to as the host, and the guests

play a secondary role, mainly to balance that major point of
Emphasizes the random wildness of nature ,sporadically
interest.
The use of color
scattered elements. But paintings based on nature can have
very patterned foregrounds, skies, and horizons.
The color are mainly black and white.
The ink traditionally regarded as colors to represent tones
The use of color is very rich.
and simple shading blended with different amount of water.
vibrant colors or more neutral balanced artist must
Perspective
understand nature and be able to emphasize the senses of
color, light, sound and smell.
there is no certain point to guide u and you might feel
confused when you first look at it .

to create a real view of what they see, a variety of

perspectives and technique of expression are applied.

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