How Will I Be Assessed?
- Reading Quiz 3
Assigned Readings
- Read and discuss Ivanhoe & Van Norden, (Kongzi), The Analects.
- Read and discuss Ivanhoe & Van Norden (Mozi), “Impartial Caring,” and “A Condemnation of Aggressive War,” 63–73.
- Read and discuss Ivanhoe & Van Norden (Mengzi), Books 1 & 2, 113–126.
- Read and discuss Ivanhoe & Van Norden (Laozi), Daodejing.
- Read and discuss Ivanhoe & Van Norden (Zhuangzi), “On Equalizing Things,” 209–219.
Lectures
- Two kinds of harmony
- Kongzi’s “Golden Rule”
- Ruist and Mohist interpretations of tianming 天命
- Consequentialist ethics and fatalist ethics
- Defining dao 道
- Discussing paronomasia in Ruist and Daoist philosophies
- Defining xin 心
- Philosophical realism