 To be sure, there inevitably remains for us the question of the “place” and manner in which this global communication between cultures should take place. But without a “view from nowhere,” can we not only ever attempt to critically and creatively take up ideas that have particular genealogies and dialogically develop them into what are provisionally more universally viable forms? Just as concepts of democracy, hermeneutics, and indeed philosophia itself have particular cultural lineages, so do the ideas of śūnyatā, mu, and the true self as a non-ego that opens itself to an encounter with others by radically emptying itself. Nevertheless, all of these ideas may very well contribute something to an intercultural dialogue concerning the very place and manner in which a genuine encounter between cultures and individuals can and should take place.