American philosopher who attempted a comprehensive synthesis of Eastern and Western philosophical traditions, arguing that the West's theoretically postulated concepts must be integrated with the East's aesthetic, undifferentiated intuition for a complete epistemology.
The Meeting of East and West thesis: that Western and Eastern philosophies represent complementary epistemological approaches whose synthesis is necessary for world culture and peace; influenced Pirsig's MOQ.
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