It is interesting that this thread has been resuscitated concurrent with
Ref request: Reality objective or subjective and its context:
What makes things real?
May be not just coincidence?
@CuriousRomantic has given a view of how advaita differs from pomo that I broadly concur with.
For here let me focus on the your — correctly perceived IMHO...
Coincidence between oriental systems and pomo
Let
SO = subject oriented philosophy
OO = object oriented philosophy
OO =
{materialism, physicalism, scientism, (logical) positivism, analytic philosophy,.... objectivism}
SO =
{idealism, (platonic) rationalism leading on to neoplatonism, postmodernism, vedanta, religion-generally..., existentialism, solipsism}
Religion-generally certainly of course includes Taoism, Buddhism with some wiggling given suffering's objective status.
Christianity is interesting : If we define genuine christian as «worried about my soul (before others')» and evangelical Christian as «if bamboozling others faileth then bomb» then clearly the more genuine a Christian gets the more SO.
(Ken Wilber describes the spectrum).
Islam is the hardest to properly fit here given its unambiguous political side and universalist compulsions.
For OO: Positivism is (my) preferred typical/canonical element and (Randian) objectivism the asymptotic limit.
For SO : the asymptotic limit is clearly solipsism – not only are we subject oriented, there's nothing but the first person subject!
The question (you are asking) really boils down to
Which is the (archetypal) SO member?
Depending on who you ask and his positive/negative associations you could as easily get Pomo as Taoism as answer.
The essential question is THE question of ontology
What is be-ing?
Speaking common-sensically:
- this phone in my hand is
- I am
Given that "is" and "am" are conjugates of the same verb "be" we must choose :
These two sentences are either
- parametrically related (as in synonym)
- incidentally related (as in homonym)
Ie the "isness" of me and my phone are at base the same or else only seem same by a quirk of language.
If you choose the first you are an OOist if the second you are an SOist
Beyond that which specific SO/OO element you pick to identify with will depend on culture and context.