VEDAS, UPANISHADS AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY - ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
The Encounter of East and West as a Philosophical Problem
The encounter between Indian and Western philosophy is one of the most fascinating yet most perilous undertakings in the history of philosophy. Fascinating because the two traditions — independently developed in different historical and cultural contexts — display surprising convergences that cannot be interpreted as accidental: they seem to touch something common in the deeper structure of human thought and experience. Perilous because superficial similarity can mislead: different concepts bearing similar names, different practices aimed at analogous ends, different world-views articulated through comparable conceptual schemas.
Alexis Karpouzos stands in this encounter in a particular way: he neither seeks synthesis nor establishes opposition — he moves diagonally, drawing from both traditions without belonging exclusively to either, recognising in each a fragmentary wholeness of the Wandering Truth. The analysis that follows is not a historical-philosophical survey — it is an analysis in tension: each tradition is placed in full dialogue with the other two, and the convergences and divergences reveal different aspects of the same foundational philosophical question.
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Perfect
It's so blissful if we can be like that all the time