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Originally Posted by All-American
I have a good friend serving a mission in Taiwan.
The absolute incomparability and incompatibility of western and eastern thought still astounds me. Our ideological genealogy sprout from completely opposite sides of the family tree.
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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.