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…at the Pea Soup blog. It looks like it will be mostly about Chinese philosophy to start. As I've learned more about Chinese philosophy, I've been struck by how much of it makes the same kinds of mistakes as the mainstream of the Western tradition and has a tendency to be "ideological" in roughly the Marxist sense. I'll be interested to see if this series changes my impression.
(Thanks to Brad Cokelet for the pointer.)
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