"The idea of a just society forms no part of the Hindu philosophical tradition. It has been argued that the concept of dharma compensates for this omission, but I disagree: dharma is an ethic, not a politics. The difference from the Christian ideal is even greater and more radical [than its differenc"
"In China, although there was political criticism, people never discussed the foundations of society as they did in Greece. Only in two periods of profound social crisis did the philosophical and the political debate refer to original principles: in the era of the Warring States, and in the third cen"