A Battle of Wisdom

[Scott R. Brown]

So, who should represent the western hemisphere in this "battle of wisdom" because Plato ain't from the West, that is my point.

This is not true. Plato is a representative of Western Philosophy.

If we want to be accurate, west is relative to where you start from. From Asia, America is east and Europe is West. In educated/academic conversation, however, it is commonly understood that Europe is considered the home of Western philosophy, India and China the home of Eastern philosophy.

West is understood to include Greece, East begins in Asia Minor, that is the eastern side of the Bosphorus. This has been the case for 3,000 years or so.

So your previous comment is a bit nit-picky and argumentative within the context of the original post. It is more a political issue and not pertinent to the original post.

That is not to say it is not a topic worth discussing, but on its own thread perhaps?

Having said that, Amerindian philosophers have not and cannot be included in the discussion because we know, essentially, nothing about them since they recorded nothing. Whereas Western and Eastern philosophy has been recorded in relative detail for nearly 3000 years.