compositional factor, consciousness, Feeling, perfection, wisdom 

There are several basic distinctions between Buddhist and modern western philosophy. In this article the philosophy of Karl Jasper is taken for an example of modern western philosophy. Buddhist philosophy is sometimes taken holistic, and has sought as its end some form of enlightenment, while philosophy of K.Jaspers is more concerned with individualism. The arguments are always the same, of course, since every significant thinker puts his own style of expression on the problems they consider. Many of the arguments produced in Buddhist philosophy, for example Four Noble Truths are very different from anything that exits in the philosophy of Jaspers, and often there appears to be an entirely different way of looking at the notion of being and change.