Western and Eastern Wisdom

Abstract

Humans wisdom normally reflects human knowledge that enables human beings to continue with their own existence from the very beginning until currently and possibly beyond. Differences among human wisdom in different regions depend very much on different locations and human societies. Around 3,000 years ago most prominent wisdom emerged along the so called “warm climate” on earth. While technologies developed by human beings were not as much advance, such questions about ideal society and good life received similar answers for both Westerners and Easterners.

            Soon as the Westerners moved northward into the cold climate, while Easterners moved down more toward the equator, their way of lives began to change. The Westerners must survive the cold climate by controlling harsh nature while the Easterners found themselves living in the paradise, yet they were not comfortable with what went on among human societies, communities as well as their own human experiences. Some looked for internal causes of the problems within human bodies themselves, human ‘mind’. In a similar vain, the Westerners developed their skills of “technological innovation” to overcome less comfortable nature and environment for them. While the Easterners seemed to understand more about human nature and human mind that would lead to happy human communities and societies. They were better at the so called, “social innovation”.