History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

Jan 25 2025 227 ep. 26 mins 8.3k
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Peter Adamson teams up with Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers, and Karyn Lai to represent the philosophical traditions of ancient India, Africa and the African diaspora, and classical China. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.

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HPC 22. Inside Job: Women in Confucianism

Jan 25 2025 18 mins  
Can classical Confucianism be redeemed from its reputation for rigidly hierarchical thinking when it comes to the relationship between men and women?

HPC 21. Sor-Hoon Tan on Confucian Democracy

Jan 11 2025 38 mins  
Can classical Confucian ideas be adapted to produce a theory of democracy fit for today's world?

HPC 20. Heaven Can Wait: Ritual and Religion in Confucianism

Dec 28 2024 19 mins  
Were Confucian ideas about Heaven, ritual, and fate driven by a religious attitude, or a naturalistic one?

HPC 19. The Kingly Way: Confucian Political Philosophy

Dec 14 2024 20 mins  
Mengzi and Xunzi show that a Confucian political theory need not be idealistic.

HPC 18. Erica Brindley on Music and the Cosmos in Confucianism

Nov 30 2024 29 mins  
An interview about the "resonant cosmos" in early Confucianism, and the role played by music in linking sages to the universe.

HPC 17. Knowing Me, Knowing You: Confucian Epistemology

Nov 16 2024 18 mins  
The role of knowing in Confucian ethics: should it be understood as “knowing how,” or even “knowing to,” rather than “knowing that”?

HPC 16. To Become or Not to Become: the Confucians on Our Moral Natures

Nov 02 2024 24 mins  
Morality is what makes us humans, for the Confucians. But does morality come from inside us, outside us, or both?

HPC 15. Flexing Your Moral Muscles: Xunzi on Moral Cultivation

Oct 19 2024 22 mins  
Xunzi, a thinker who shaped the course of Confucian philosophy by showing how deliberate effort can overcome our wicked natural tendencies.

HPC 14. Every Man for Himself: Virtue and the Body

Oct 05 2024 21 mins  
Several ancient Chinese texts speak of an egoist and hedonist known as Yang Zhu: did he pose a coherent challenge to the Confucians and other ethicists?

HPC 13. The Trembling Ox: Mengzi and the Compassionate Heart

Sep 21 2024 22 mins  
In the Mengzi, the text that bears his name, Mengzi ("Mencius") holds that the human heart-mind is the wellspring of goodness.