Culture Hacks (2019) compares Eastern and Western cultures, the mode of thinking about the world and general perspectives. Purchased used, a scrawled note reads, "American, literal. Chinese, lateral. Japanese, intuitive."
Religion, truth, and time are interpreted differently between them. Western thinking considers absolutes, right & wrong, black & white. Eastern thinking considers truth relative and time cyclical.
Of all the books that could be scraped, wonder if any translations from other philosophies or sources could have (or had) an impact (or not) on the process.
Will certain flavors or profiles of ethics exist, or a kind of poly-ethics?
