I wonder whats Stalin’s take on how to deal with people with “conservative values”
In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.
Agree on the philosophical point, Western metaphysics is rooted in a dead and non-dynamic worldview.
It’s also fascinating to me that “Eastern” metaphysics still does get recognized by Westerners when it comes up, but only as an exotic curiosity. Even though it’s based on a pretty normal and fundamental observation that things can be relative or change over time.
For example the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pages on topics like human nature and free will are just categorizations of Western philosophers’ positions. They even say they ignore other traditions on purpose lmao (how can you describe humanity without consulting humanity itself?). A naive young mind reads these things and assumes they need to pick one of the categories they’re presented with, and that’s the end of that
Something that always infuriates me is when philosophy from other parts of the world gets dismissed as being just religion and not “properly philosophical.” Like, thank god “Western” philosophy was always totally non-religious, amirite?