Historical Comparison of Eastern and Western Ideas of Struggle

Abstract

In both Eastern and Western cultures, the word struggle has a profound historical connotation, and along with historical changes and continuous cultural integration, the idea of struggle has gradually taken on Chinese and Western cultural connotations and values. Eastern struggle is derived from pictograms, which means to struggle with vigor, while the Western struggle is derived from the etymology of struggle, which emphasizes individual struggle. After tracing the connotation of both cultures, we find that the struggle in both cultures has a common pursuit, that is, the struggle for the realization of the ideal personality and the common pursuit of virtue and value, while the differences are expressed in the respective tendencies of rational appearance and practical practice, as well as the division of discourse between individualism and collectivism.