Philosophy and Religion.docVIP

Religion and Philosophy --the differences between Chinese and western countries The word philosophy comes from Greece. Its roots are philo and sophy, originally meaning love wisdom or the pursuit of wisdom. And the word religion, which is from the Latin, has evolved from re and legere. The roots mean again and aggregation, and that a group of people get together for a purpose, developing to having the same beliefs, the same faith, and they do not afraid of death for their beliefs. The original cultural forms are religion and mythology. Each nation has its own religion and mythology, but not every nation has philosophy. As the earliest human ideological system, religion, as well as philosophy, are at the core of human culture, representing the deep structure of human culture. But it is notable that there is a huge inconsistency between Chinese and western philosophy in dealing with religious identity. The attitude of philosophy to religion depends on the way by which philosophy is born out of religion. Chinese philosophy cut off the relation with religion from the day of coming into being, which makes it full of non-atheism while western philosophy has thousands of relations with religion. As a result, humanism and divinity have been the significant character of attitude to religion between Chinese philosophy and western philosophy. Religion First, let’s probe into the religions’ differences between Chinese and western countries. Western religions consist of Christianity, Judaism, and Islamism and so on. Western religious history has been divided into three big stages in chronological order: the first is the Hebrew Judaism phase. It is combined with the ancient Egyptian civilization (Moses led the Jews fleeing The Egyptian pharaohs reign) and Babylon civilization (Persian conquered Babylon and put back the prisoner of Babylon). On the basic of the Semitic nomad’s traditional beliefs, the unified religion has been formed. The second is the Christian stag