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Message: <blockquote data-quote="පාහරයා" data-source="post: 6850851" data-attributes="member: 270988">Western philosophy is the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Philosophy" target="_blank">philosophical</a> thought and work of the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Western_world" target="_blank">Western or Occidental world</a>, as distinct from <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Eastern_philosophy" target="_blank">Eastern or Oriental philosophies</a> and the varieties of indigenous philosophies.Historically, the term was recently invented to refer to the philosophical thinking of <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Western_culture" target="_blank">Western civilization</a>, beginning with <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Greek_philosophy" target="_blank">Greek philosophy</a> in <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Ancient_Greece" target="_blank">ancient Greece</a>, and eventually covering a large area of the globe, including <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/North_America" target="_blank">North America</a> and <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Australia" target="_blank">Australia</a>. There is some debate of whether to include areas such as Northern Africa, some parts of the <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Middle_East" target="_blank">Middle East</a>, <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Eastern_Europe" target="_blank">Eastern Europe</a>, and so on. The word philosophy itself originated in ancient Greece: philosophia (φιλοσοφία), literally, "the love of wisdom" (φιλεῖν - philein "to love" and σοφία - sophia "wisdom", in the sense of <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Knowledge" target="_blank">knowledge</a>).In contemporary terms, Western philosophy refers to the two main traditions of contemporary philosophy, <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Analytic_philosophy" target="_blank">analytic philosophy</a> and <a href="http://www.elakiri.com/wiki/Continental_philosophy" target="_blank">continental philosophy</a>.....</blockquote>

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