How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy

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Asked about Johnson’s leadership, one EU official laughed, but offered a diplomatic take. “It’s not completely my taste to be honest,” the person said, sidestepping to praise the UK diplomatic machine. “One thing that we profit from is that the UK still has one of the best foreign services in the world. It’s pretty difficult to break that up and they [Downing Street] haven’t got round to it yet.” Portrait of Confucius, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Photograph: Christophel Fine Art/UIG via Getty Images You are pursuing a strange case, but there is nothing under Venetian law that can stop you from proceeding.

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Anyhow, about the book itself. It was not an easy read, especially because I was listening to the book, instead of reading paper form (so references were a bit of a nightmare); however, it was well versed and discussed from the Western and Eastern point of view by not placing the highlight on the comparison of both but by explaining on how both are more similar than we are lead to believe. Some discussions may be triggering to some people, as they are historical understandings, and do not stand the same grounds as moderns views on the world anymore, but it is important to note, that discussions are based on academic understandings of philosophy and religion, thus just different. The world thinks it’s weird that, as a nation, we get so excited to tune into the ‘telly box’ and watch a grown man play with the latest toys.The 'fabled spirituality' of which Baggini and countless others before him have highlighted is very much that: a fable. This is a myth which helps Westerners hide the fact that it was the fabled material wealth of India that has attracted traders and invaders from the West and elsewhere. We drink copious cups at work to get through the day, only to come home and sit down with a cuppa. The world thinks it’s so weird how obsessed we are with tea, but we love our cuppas! 1. Saying thanks to the bus driver – it’s nice to be nice Credit: Pixabay / Hans

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The director Paulette Randall brings to the stage the ultimate tale of sacrifice in the pursuit of power: Doctor Faustus. She tells Andrew Marr how, in coveting fame, power and knowledge, he sells his soul to the devil. This bargain with the devil is one of the most iconic cultural motifs in the Western tradition.For millennia, the world has been thinking about the most baffling of questions: why are we here, where have we been, where are we going, or are we just – here. Is this it? And what does it mean? There are, of course, a multitude of answers, and of practices, but How the World Thinks is a book about philosophy, and not about the minutiae of religions (although they cannot help but be often intertwined). Fascinating and unexpected details and contrasts turn up to choreograph the narrative: Chinese ancestor worship, for example, could involve real banquets for the departed with real food, the living in attendance, while of course Christians have the symbolism of the Eucharist, although he refrains from pointing out that secular cynics might think of that as something much darker. The book is replete with facile generalisations, e.g. the reference to extreme deference by Indians to authority which is contrasted with Western notions of argument and debate, all based on his experience in one conference. If Baggini had looked beyond his narrow view to the writings of historians and sociologists, it is the argumentative nature of Indians that has led to its amazing diversity. Amartya Sen, the Nobel-prize winning Indian economist, illustrated this in his book 'The Argumentative Indian'.