By Dan Hagen
Why, you may ask, am I interested in tracing parallels
between a 2,400-year-old Athenian philosophical school and the 1,500-year-old
Chinese and Japanese iteration of a 2,500-year-old Indian religion?
Precisely because they were spawned in such vastly different
places and times. Thinkers who share no history can’t possibly reflect the same
cultural presuppositions and prejudices. So the points at which their ideas
about the human existential reality intersect — and there are several — are
likely to reflect insights about the underlying truth of human nature.
Comparing apples and oranges? Sure. That can give you the fundamental
facts about fruit.
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