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Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition(s) First Semester Fall 2012
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The Course
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D'OÙ VENONS NOUS / QUE SOMMES NOUS / OÙ ALLONS NOUS Where Do We Come From?
What Are We? Where Are We Going?
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Religious and Philosophical Questions
‘Religious’
! Who?
! Why?
Philosophical
! What?
! How?
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Nuances
Philosophy Love of wisdom
zhé xué 哲学 Wise study (coined)
Darśana दश#न Vision (of ultimate reality)
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Basic questions
What’s what? (Nature of reality.)
What’s good? (Value)
What do we know (or what’s true)?
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Reality Western Indian Chinese
Why is there something rather than nothing?
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Is there anything that does not change?
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Which is more basic, Being or Non-Being?
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Does God exist? If so, why evil?
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Value Western Indian Chinese
What is art and other questions in aesthetics
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What are the basic standards of morality (ethics)?
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What is the purpose of government? What is the relationship of the individual and the state?
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Knowledge (epistemology) Western Indian Chinese
What are the scope & limits of knowledge? ✔ ✔ ✔
Can the truth be known at all? ✔ ✔ ✔
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Methods Western Indian Chinese
Perception ✔ ✔ ✔
Inference ✔ ✔ ✔
Intuition
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Authority
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Some General Differences
West East
Analysis Synthesis
Plurality of things Unity of things
Differences Harmony
Logic Language – aphorisms
Individual Family, society
Seeks the TRUTH Recognizes many views
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Language Differences Are they influential?
! Inflection or not
! Writing systems
! Categories
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Stages
Hellenic India China Religion to philosophy
Hesiod Pre-Socratics
Vedas
Founders Socrates Plato
Aristotle
Vedas (Upanishads)
Confucius Laozi
Reactions - Expansions First stages
Neoplatonists Stoics
Jainism Buddhism
“Hundred schools” Mencius
Sunzi
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How do you think?
! Which two of these words are most closely related? Panda, monkey, banana
! Cultural differences in student responses Americans favored common categories –
panda and monkey Chinese favored relationships – monkey
and banana