Culture, systems of thoughts and degree of tolerance
According to an article i was just reading, our thoughts never escapes the cage of culture we rose in and is mined by the social and psychological structure of it. The article proposes a comparison between the ancient Greeks and Chinese civilizations and how the characteristics of each civilization in terms of moral system, values , sense of individuality, and implicitly agreed upon merits can actually follow their way up to the upper frontal part of the brain shaping thoughts, even in an era of universality and the small village world. Greeks according to the article put a high value for power of the individual and the sense of personal agency to an extent never seen in other civilizations, something that reflects in the tradition of debate that is well known about the Greeks even for someone with shallow cultural knowledge like me. which probably fed curiosity within them and led them to advance or even discover sciences, but most importantly construct a causal models according ...