VISUALIZATIONS OF PHILOSOPHICAL CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTION AND INFLUENCE IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD

Abstract

While the process of influence between various cultural and
historical traditions in philosophy has been taking place
for thousands of years, this inter-cultural interaction is
occurring at a more accelerated pace in the information age.
While philosophers throughout history have used visual
representations to understand philosophical influence and
historical origins and the distribution of philosophical ideas
and sub-disciplines, this paper stresses the importance of
philosophical visualizations to represent the global interactivity
of philosophy. It provides various visualizations to
represent global philosophical interaction, the penetration of
Western philosophical ideas into non-Western philosophical
traditions, and the appropriation of non-Western traditions
by Western philosophers. Such visualizations are important
in the contemporary age to promote regional philosophies,
to understand philosophical influence and to understand the
promotion of a kind of pluralism which remains engaged
with the global world.