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Western thought is Western, not universal
After I graduated from high school, I chose to study Philosophy. I wanted to know the heights of human understanding. I wanted to pick history’s greatest brains, all the way from the ancient Greeks through the Middle Ages, Enlightenment and modern times. And from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas and from Rousseau to Nietzsche, it appeared that the most brilliant thinkers of all time had all been born in Europe. When I became president of the study association of the Philosophy…