Introduction to Chinese Philosophy

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Syllabus

Short Essay Topics and Review Sheet for Your First Exam:

Your Presentation Topics:

A Discussion between the Students and Instructor:

Lecture on Keep Space Open for the Sense of Wonder

Questions for Dr. Jackson's lecture

Requirement for Your Group Table and Individual Summaries

Your final exam is 10:00-11:40, Dec. 11 (Monday)! Study Guide

Q & A for your Final Exam

Your Final Paper Topics

Creighton in China 2006: http://winstream.creighton.edu/jyu02084/china/China06_1.wmv

Creighton in China 2007: application

"Chinese Philosophy" Party: 6:00pm, Dec. 1st at Dr. Yuan's House

 

Introduction & Chapter one

Aesthetics

Chinese words and way of thinking: Oracle Bone Inscription and Myths

The Characteristics of Chinese Myths

Philosophy in Chinese Myths

The First Anticipation:

Reading assignment: Handouts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and Hall's & Ames' Anticipating China pp. 1-12.

Outline 1

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(Hall & Ames, pp.1-12)

Chapter two

Chinese Cosmology

Chinese Numeration and the Pattern of Changes

I Ching (The Book of Changes) (1)

I Ching (The Book of Changes) (2)

The Second Anticipation:

Reading assignment: Handouts 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and Hall's & Ames' Anticipating China pp. 12-24.

Outline 4

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(Hall & Ames, pp.12-24)

Chapter three

Pre-Qin Philosophy

Aesthetics and Ethics

 

Daosim

 

 

Confucianism

 

 

 

Dialectics

Sun Zi

 

Logic

Mo Zi and Later

Mohists

 

 

Chapter Four

Neo-Daoism

Neo-Confucianism

Anti-Neo-Confuciaism

Communism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Natural way of Lao Zi--Dao De Jing (1)

Dao De Jing (2)

The Third and Fourth Anticipations:

Reading assignment: Lao Zi (Lao Tzu)'s Tao Te Ching pp. 5-88 and Hall's & Ames' Anticipating China pp. 25-40.

Zhuang Zi (1)

Inner Chapters:

Chapter 1: Going Rambling without a Destination

Chapter 2: The Sorting Which Evens Things out

Chapter 3: What Matters in The Nurture of Life & 4: Worldly Business among Man

Daoism in the practical life:

http://winstream.creighton.edu/jyu02084/photostory/Alaska.wmv

The Fifth and Sixth Anticipations:

Reading assignment: Zhuang Zi (Chuang Tzu)'s Inter Chapter A. C. Graham pp.43-111 and Hall's & Ames' Anticipating China pp. 40-66.

Ethics and Aesthetics--Confucius' Family Ethics

The Analects 1 (Book 1-Book10)

The Analects 2 (Book 11-Book 20)

Reading assignment: The Analects of Confucius (Tran. R. Ames) Book 1-Book 20 & Hall's & Ames' Anticipating China pp 66-109.

The Art of Warfare I (Chapter 1-6)

The Art of Warfare I (Chapter 7-13)

Reading assignment: Sun-Tzu, The Art of Warfare, Ch. 1-13

Class Activity for Chapter 10: The Terrain:

The Terrian

 http://winstream.creighton.edu/jyu02084/fall/land2.wmv

Mo Zi

"Honoring the Worthy"

The Seventh and Eighth Anticipations

"Identifying with One's Superior"

Later Mohists' Argument

The Structure of Chinese Logic

"Universal Love"

Reading assignments: Mo Zi and Handouts

Noe-Daoism:

Tao Qian's "Requiem for Myself" and "The Peach Blossom Spring"

Ouyang Xiu's "The Old Toper's Pavilion"

Neo-Confucianism:

Chen's borthers

Zhu Xi

Lu Xun

Mao Ze-Dong

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outline 7

Discussion

(Ames, pp.25-40)

 

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Discussion

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Discussion

(Ames, pp. 40-66)

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Discussion

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Discussion

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Outline 19.1(Handout)

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Handouts

Handouts

Party and Movie at Dr. Yuan's house

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