Similarities over the national boundaries

The Argumentative Indian” by Dr. Amartya Sen It is true that tolerance [1] has not been advocated by all in the Asian traditions. Nor has that advocacy typically covered everyone though some, such as Asoka, in the third century BCE, did indeed insist on completely universal coverage, without any exception). But much the same can be said about Western traditions as well. There is little evidence that Plato or St Augustine were tolerant and less authoritarian than Confucius. While Aristotle certainly did write on the importance of freedom, women and slaves were excluded from the domain of this concern (an exclusion that, as it happens, Ashoka[2]...

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