History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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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.

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    HPC 37. She Stoops to Conquer: Femininity in the Laozi

    How the Laozi (Daodejing) applies the lessons of complementarity to the contrast between male and female.

    17 min

  2. 14 SEPT

    HPC 36. Fishing for Complements: Polarities in Daoism

    The significance of the Laozi’s use of opposing pairs, which are treated as complementary rather as exclusive dichotomies.

    18 min

  3. 27 JUL

    HPC 35. Way Better than Greenwashing: Daoism on Nature

    The Laozi (Daodejing) refers to the winds, the rain and the waters. We discuss how these ideas express the Laozi’s views on nature.

    22 min

  4. 13 JUL

    HPC 34. You Don’t Say! the Dao That Cannot Be Told

    The first rule of dao is: don’t talk about dao. We do so nonetheless, focusing on its role in metaphysics and language.

    24 min

  5. 29 JUN

    HPC 33. Let Us Count the Ways: What is Daoism?

    What does “Daoism” refer to in a range of contexts, and how have excavated texts changed our understanding of the tensions between Daoism and Confucianism?

    18 min

  6. 15 JUN

    HPC 32. Chris Fraser on Mohism

    We conclude our series on Mohism with an interview that looks at the Mohists' dialectic and its relationship to their ethics.

    35 min

  7. 1 JUN

    HPC 31. Push and Pull: Mohist Dialectic

    Later Mohists explained in the Canons how to provide compelling philosophical arguments, and how to avoid mistakes in argumentation. Does this count as “logic”?

    23 min

  8. 18 MAY

    HPC 30. Horse of a Different Color: the Mohists on Language and Knowledge

    What Mohist dialectics and Gongsun Long’s “White Horse Not Horse” argument tell us about the connection between language and knowledge.

    23 min
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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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