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We must somehow hope that the discarded better aspects of the two cultures, western innovation and eastern community values, may someday be combined.
If there is to be any real social progress in the future, holistic eastern approaches towards medicine and society must play a crucial role in solving the problems of mistrust and loneliness that plague the western world.
Today, people seem less able to transcend their own desires and frustrations to think globally than ever before. Is there any way out?
It is in this context that I claim that genuine philosophy has a vitally important role in preserving and fostering the ...

Thanks for the article, here are some other inspiring clips from it:-

We must somehow hope that the discarded better aspects of the two cultures, western innovation and eastern community values, may someday be combined.
If there is to be any real social progress in the future, holistic eastern approaches towards medicine and society must play a crucial role in solving the problems of mistrust and loneliness that plague the western world.
Today, people seem less able to transcend their own desires and frustrations to think globally than ever before. Is there any way out?
It is in this context that I claim that genuine philosophy has a vitally important role in preserving and fostering the conditions for human flourishing.
The wisdom that philosophy strives to embody is not a body of arid dogma but a thoughtful and gracious way of being-in-the-world.
all humans are entitled and obliged to know themselves and their place in the greater scheme of things. Joyfully renouncing the ignorant extremes of materialistic nihilism and paranoid fundamentalism, genuinely educated persons will be truly 'born again' when they, by thoughtful words and deeds, re-collect and realize a world charged with the glory of the human spirit.