„Getting used to meals without a central piece
of animal flesh may take time, but once it has
happened you will have so many interesting
new dishes to choose from that you will
wonder why you ever thought it would be
difficult to do without flesh foods.“ Peter
Singer, in The Ethics of Food (2002)
The main aim of what is called intercultural philosophy is the “dialogue between
West and East” for mutual understanding of foreign cultures. A central topic of this
philosophical endeavor is most famously connected with the German philosopher
Martin Heidegger and, one generation younger, with French philosopher Michel
Foucault. Facing the “crisis of Western thinking” (Foucault) and of “Western
civilization and its planetary fate” (Heidegger), both of them raised the question
whether “the world could be saved through the wisdom of the East?” Here is more.