2017 - 2018

0618-1043-01
  Introduction to Oriental Chinese Philosophy                                                          
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Prof. Galia Patt -ShamirWebb - School of Languages001Wed1200-1400 Sem  1
 
 
University credit hours:  2.0

Course description

What is the way (dao) and where is it to be found and how does a search for way differ from the philosophical search for truth? In the course we will encounter various responses to these questions from philosophical perspectives that developed in China. In particular we will consider ideas regarding the way as ongoing movement, which necessitates change and transformation with no fixed essence.

Ideas that will be dealt with in the course include change, yin-yang, flowing qi, heat-mind, humanity, ritual, self cultivation, turning backwards, knowing not to know, inaction, in itself so.

 The course will be concluded with  a final exam.

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