Eastern philosophy had more to do with morality and religion than its western counterpart. The liked between religion and philosophy was not clear in the eastern region where thinkers like Laozi and Confucius in China and Siddhartha Gautama in India based their notions in line with religious dogmas. For much of history, eastern and western philosophies developed in isolation, whereas eastern philosophies had less to do with metaphysics – unlike the west.
Yet, at a point in time, Athenian philosophers and their moral philosophies were strikingly similar to the east, and once they discovered this school of thought stronger anticipation preceded. However, with the stronghold of Christianity in the west, the lines between eastern and western philosophies became clear and were marked by multiple differences. In the 19th Century western thinkers began to find the moral philosophy of the east similar yet again, particularly with the views of German idealism. Today, with the globalization of philosophical thinking, both areas of philosophy have come under the influence of their counterparts.
