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Perhaps this was intentional, or supported by having teachers and a stronger oral history/tradition? Just as with Buddhism, I always felt there wasn't as much o
by progmetaldev 4y ago
Perhaps this was intentional, or supported by having teachers and a stronger oral history/tradition? Just as with Buddhism, I always felt there wasn't as much of a clear divide between philosophy and science as you find in western thought. You seem more well versed than I in this topic, so thought I would throw this out there in case you have any insight into this (or I easily could be misinterpreting).
- fooker 4y agoThat is exactly right. The claim from the Greek historian is that this is what caused eastern science and engineering to stagnate compared to Greek/Roman efforts. I am inclined to agree, of course it is not really possible to prove any causality here.
- progmetaldev 4y agoThis is one of those topics where we can only dream of where we could currently be, had these traditions been allowed to continue and the knowledge shared. Being from the western world, with a deep curiosity in eastern thought and practice, these types of thought experiments are very interesting to me, but also depressing when you look closely at the reality of how things played out.
- marcosdumay 4y agoDid knowledge stop being freely shared? Or rich families stopped hiring teachers? I'm not sure this ever happened on a worldwide scale.
- progmetaldev 4y agoThis was strictly in regards to the oral tradition of passing down knowledge in India.
- marcosdumay 4y agoOh, ok. I understood something completely different.
- ramblenode 4y ago> The claim from the Greek historian is that this is what caused eastern science and engineering to stagnate compared to Greek/Roman efforts. I am not an historian, but is this really true? Scientists/mathematicians then were philosophers or "natural philosophers" and it seems like most of the famous ones also worked on things like metaphysics.
- fooker 4y agoIt’s definitely true that European, Arabic, and Chinese engineering overtook Indians at some point in ancient history. If I had to put a timestamp on it, it would be the fall of the Maurya empire around 200BC when the Roman War Machine was getting more and more organized and industrialized.