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Chinese Thought: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science - Part 2
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 5 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on October 14, 2019
- Ends on January 28, 2022
Course details
Syllabus
- Later developments in Confucianism and Daoism
- Legalism and the origins of the imperial Chinese state
- How to analyze philosophical and religious arguments and debates
- Alternative models of ethics, the self, and the individual-society relationship
- The universality and contemporary relevance of basic ethical dilemmas
- The power of spontaneity, and the tensions involved in attaining it
- Religion or spirituality and the role of meaning in human well-being
Prerequisite
Instructors
Edward Slingerland
Distinguished University Scholar
University of British Columbia
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