Chinese Thought Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science Part 2
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The Syllabus
- Course Outline
- Course Schedule
- Course Team
- Guest Lecturers
- General Course Questions
- Introduce Yourself!
- Entry Survey
- Module 5 Introduction
- Mencius and the New World of Late-Warring States Thought
- Mencius and Gaozi: Where Do You “Get” Rightness?
- Human Nature is “Good”: Mencius and the Moral Sprouts
- Evidence for the Sprouts: Mencian
- Evidence for the Sprouts: Modern Scientific
- Emotion vs. Reason: Mencian Sentimentalism
- “Extension”: The Importance of Moral Imagination
- Mencian Gradualism and Internalism: The Wisdom of the Body
- The Paradox of Wu-wei in the Mencius
- Module 5 Discussions
- Module 5 Quiz
- Bonus Material: Full interview with Prof. Kiley Hamlin (UBC)
- Module 6 Introduction
- Zhuangzi and the Zhuangzi
- Fallenness: Getting Rid of the Human Essence
- Undergrowth in the Head: The Problem of Fixed Ideas
- Qi and the Fasting of the Mind
- Guided by the Spirit: Skill Stories in the Zhuangzi
- Zhuangzi and the Embodied Mind
- Drunk on Heaven: In the World But Not of It
- The Paradox of Wu-wei in the Zhuangzi
- Module 6 Discussions
- Module 6 Quiz
- Bonus Material: Full Interview with Prof. Evan Thompson (UBC)
- Module 7 Introduction
- Xunzi and the Return to Externalism
- Xunzi on the Mind and Free Will
- Xunzi on the Origins of Confucian Culture
- Building Cold Into Hot: Xunzian Wu-wei
- Heavenly and Human: The World’s First Functionalist Theory of Religion
- A Perennial Debate: Xunzi vs. Mencius / Conservatism and Liberalism
- Han Feizi and Legalism
- Standards, Methods and The Power of Position
- Institutional Wu-wei: Institutionalism à la Machiavelli
- Module 7 Discussions
- Module 7 Quiz
- Bonus Material: Full interview with Prof. Joseph Henrich (UBC)
- Module 8 Introduction
- Conclusion Video: Why Study Religion in a Secular World? What Can We Learn from Early Chinese Religion?
- Bonus Material: Full Interview with Prof. Mark Csikszentmihalyi
- Exit Survey
- Video Outtakes
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