| Arise Arjuna Hinduism And The
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| EAST AND WEST, WHERE IS THE
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Both of these
eras were creative because of an interchange of ideas with many outside sources.
Renaissance thinkers studied Greek, Roman, Middle Eastern and sometimes Indian sources.
The ancient Greeks and Romans took much from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia and India. These
interchanges were not signs of the poverty of their culture but its openness. Yet besides
these two great cultural eras the religious era of the early Christianity overshadows them
in the Western mind. The religious movement of Christianity was exclusive, not synthetic,
and covers over the otherwise more synthetic nature of Western culture.
Western culture is generally defined in two ways, which are usually combined, though they
are contradictory. First it is regarded as scientific and rational, as opposed to oriental
culture which is unscientific and mystical. Second by its Christian religion (with which
Judaism and Islam may be combined), it is regarded as humanitarian and monotheistic, while
Eastern religions are viewed as otherworldly and polytheistic or monistic. |
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