When you study undergraduate philosophy you aren&#x27;t instantly bombarded with the current state-of-the-art in philosophical thought. On the contrary you spend a lot of time studying the musings of ancient philosophical ideas that have since been improved upon.<p>Should we stop teaching Aristotle and Plato now because many of their ideas have been vastly improved upon? Of course not, because teaching about those philosophers has pedagogical value.<p>Philosophy is much more about building and de-constructing rational arguments than it is about learning some particular set of facts from some particular philosopher. As such it doesn&#x27;t matter whether western philosophy is &quot;more correct&quot; than non-western philosophy: it still offers arguments from different perspectives that can be used as a basis for practising philosophy.