The best comparative philosophy does more than compare. According to three recent accounts, it seeks to “integrate” or “challenge” or “seek truth.”1 Each of these ideas depends on being able to compare ideas, texts, and reasons across philosophical traditions, but each goes beyond comparison to urge that we engage in creative philosophy. The desire to synthesize aspects of “different philosophical traditions that developed in relative isolation from one another” [Yu and Bunnin 2001, 296], however, can seem hopeless. The many differences among the cultures and languages in which these different philosophical traditions are imbedded have led to a set of worries about the coherence of comparative philosophy: doctrines like relativism or incommensurability claim that reasoned comparison or translation across cultural gulfs can be impossible. If comparative philosophy would stick to comparisons, then perhaps these worries could be side-stepped: any two things can be compared in one respect or another. To integrate or challenge or seek truth, though, we must tackle the worries head-on.