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Originally Posted by Solon
I've got a friend here (LDS, as if it matters) who is comparing Chinese and Italian literature from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries for his dissertation. He does a lot of Dante (not exactly philosophy, but not completely out of range) and Taoism. Of course, he's in Taiwan right now.
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I was probably overly hyperbolic. Of course there are similarities, given that many human predicaments are identical across cultures, but the degree to which eastern and western thought are similar is comparatively low. Then again, maybe it is, but we're just not that familiar with much outside of western tradition.