[Revised entry by David Wong on September 5, 2024.
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Comparative philosophy originated from bringing together philosophical traditions that are perceived to have developed in relative isolation from one another and that are defined quite broadly along cultural and regional lines – Chinese versus Western, for example. For this reason, several main issues about the commensurability of philosophical traditions have constituted much of the early subject matter of comparative philosophy. Doing comparative philosophy well can be very difficult because of the vast range of texts and their…

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