Introducing intercultural philosophy

Abstract

This essay attempts to introduce intercultural philosophy not as a new branch of philosophy but as a new appraoch to philosophy neccessitaed by the real situation of the world and the relations between various philosophies and cultures. Cultures, despite thier geographic locations, have a lot in common. In thier developments, most cultures reciprocally influence each other. No culture is the pure culture of a given nation or region. Assuming that the idea of one's own culture to be fictitious and understanding philosophy as embedded in specific cultures whose specificity, however, is relative, it attempts to show the advantage of doing philosophy interculturally.

 Through a critique of Eurocentrism, it appeals for a dialogue between philosophies and cultures. The dialogue could enable philosphies and cultures to learn a lot from each other, there by enabling them to broaden thier horizon. The lesons that they learn from each other is important in tackling the common problems encounterd by humankinds.