Quito Remarks

Quito (1991) remark
The spirit of modern philosophy is an outburst of discovery. Rationalism (17th century)

and empiricism (18th century) both relied on human discoveries such as of the world, of
thought, and of humanity in all sorts of conditions.
Once at the apex of Asian philosophy circles, Quito, at the present times, still lives with
her famous remark: “The concept of all-at-once-ness which is the hallmark of the mind of Asia
in annoying to the Western mind which cannot shake off its structural mode of thinking in
terms of beginning and end, of before and after, of then and now and later. This is no doubt
applicable to individual things and events which the Asian mind does not reject, but when the
line of reasoning and understanding is raised from the fragmentary to the total, from the
piecemeal to the whole. From the part to that all of the world of things, the Asian mind balks
at the “illogic” of applying the same principles pertaining only to the Fragments to that of the
whole”
From the words itself, all-at-once-ness reflects to the state of everything or several
things running and occurring at the same time. Even though it can be the utilization to describe
any occurrence of simultaneity where the separation in space and time are less relevant and
defining than they used to be. In other words, Asia give credence to that everything that is
going on at the same time in instance of a man was dying while a baby was born.
Quito is from Western and he compared the mindset of Western and East mindset or
how they think in his remark. In accordance to her certain remark, the concept of Asia (Eastern)
to think as a whole is annoying to the Western people. They are not pleased at the thought of
all-at-once-ness and the Eastern structural mode of thinking in terms of beginning and end, of
before and after, of then and now and later. Additionally, in the fact that Eastern people does
not reject things and events that is happening in their life. Quito argued in his remark that
Eastern people sometimes think like Western at certain situation and that eastern people cannot
think of everything as a whole. Indeed, there are some things that they reject when the line of
reasoning and understanding is raised from the fragmentary to the total, from the piecemeal to
the whole and from the part to that all of the world of things. When Asian (Eastern) would be
in some kind of situation, their mind flinches at the illogic type of applying the same principles
pertaining only to the fragments to that of the whole. They will just think of some part rather
than the whole like they used to do.
As has been clichély discussed beforehand, the most often cited difference is that
western philosophy is “fragmentary” while eastern philosophy is holistic. Confucius analects
deal with both the inner and outer life of a person while Aristotle’s works emphasize how one
should conduct one’s self. At a holistic understanding of one’s self and one’s surroundings
while a western emphasizes specific goals one should strive on diving into the knowing of
reality.
In contradictory, Eastern Philosophies pertains on holistic that mainly believes that all
events in the universe are interconnected from one another. It’s the searching inside yourself
by becoming part of the universe through meditation and right living while Western focuses
on individual events and the role as a person. Occidental is the searching outside yourself
through research and analysis.
In brief, there are subjective discrepancies which entirely miss the fundamentals, and
essentially identical, aims of eastern and western philosophy. Moreover, such distinctions
distort one’s perception of history in that, once people accept a fundamental difference between
East and West, they may tend to view the history of respective culture as radically different
from each other. Nonetheless, human beings are still in essence of being the same to the world
over. In such, they differ on only the specificities of details and customs wherein the
philosophies of eastern and western thinkers clear and stand to all these.

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