system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
On daoism and others of the eastern tradition

Does western philosophy take Eastern philosophy seriously? I've been trying to penetrate the chuang tzu recently, and found it lacking in the clarity compared to even pre-industrial philosophy. Is there any rigor to the epistemological methods hidden in the flowery verse that seems prevalent to eastern writing? 
And within western thought, are the intuitive (and in my opinion, valid but unsound) judgements "looked down on" by analytic philosophy?

I'll revise the question if need be; armchair reader here.
gpt
There's been some recent motivations among some western philosophers to take an interest in non-western philosophy, particularly growing out of the Heideggerian understanding of the relationship between metaphysics and cultural history.  However, precious little Chinese thought is available in translation, so the intellectual tradition remains largely impenetrable except to dedicated sinologists.

Hopefully in the next few decades we will get translations of the major works of New Confucianism, and this will provide the most natural point of dialogue between occidental and Chinese thought.  A translation of Mou Zongsan's *Nineteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy* is currently in limbo owing to some political roadblocks, but hopefully that will get resolved and it will stir some interest among western readers.