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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study, Virtual Classroom | Video and Text Based |
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 3734 | yes | The University of British Columbia, Vancouver |
The Syllabus
- Course Outline
- Course Schedule
- Course Team
- Guest Lecturers
- General Course Questions
- Introduce Yourself!
- Entry Survey
- Module 1 Introduction
- Nuts and Bolts: Course description, mechanics
- What Does it Mean to Study “Thought”?
- Human Thought: Mind vs. Body, Reason vs. Emotion, Cold vs. Hot Cognition
- Human Nature and Civilization: Institutions, Commitments, and Different Models of Ethics
- Wu-wei 無爲 (ooo-way), De 德 (duh) and the Paradox of Spontaneity
- (Very) Early China
- Beginnings of Written History in China: The Shang Dynasty
- Themes in Shang Dynasty Thought
- Introduction to the Zhou Dynasty
- Zhou Dynasty Thought
- Module 1 Discussions
- Your View: Experiences of Wu-wei in Daily Life
- Module 1 Quiz
- Bonus Material: Full Interview with Prof. Ken-ichi Takashima (UBC)
- Module 2 Introduction
- Confucius and the Analects
- “I transmit but do not innovate.” (Not quite.)
- Ritual: Acquiring a behavioral language
- Learning: Acquiring the Ability to think
- Holistic Education: The role of the arts in morality
- Building cold into hot: Moral skill, flexibility and autonomy
- At Home in Virtue: Harmonizing our nature with civilized life
- “Like the wind over the grass”: Non-coercive order in the Analects
- Beware the village poseur! The paradox of wu-wei in the Analects
- Module 2 Discussions
- Module 2 Quiz
- Bonus Material: Full Interview with Dr. Brandon Konoval (UBC)
- Module 3 Introduction
- The World's First Hippies
- Laozi and the Daodejing
- The Unhewn Wood and the Desires of the Belly
- The Desires of the Eye: Madison Ave. and the Hedonic Treadmill
- “He Who Speaks Does Not Know”: Getting Beyond Language
- Samsara: The Cycle of Reversion
- Do Nothing, Be Natural: Laozi’s Golden Age
- New Insights from the Earth: The Guodian Laozi
- Instrumentalism and the Challenges of “Being Natural”
- Module 3 Discussions
- Module 3 Quiz
- Bonus Material: Full interview with Prof. Jonathan Schooler (UC Santa Barbara)
- Module 4 Introduction
- Mozi and Materialist State Consequentialism
- Honor the Worthy: Job Performance and Ideological Unity
- Others’ Fathers are Your Father: The Doctrine of Impartial Caring
- Against Music and Funerals: The Anti-Elite Chapters
- On Ghosts and Heaven’s Will: Mozi’s Religious Fundamentalism and Activism
- Later Mohist Logic and the Mid-Warring-States Linguistic Turn
- The Discovery of the Body: Yang Zhu and The Mid-Warring-States Physiological Turn
- Inward Training: Qi and Self-Cultivation
- Gaozi? The Guodian School of Confucianism
- Module 4 Discussions
- Module 4 Quiz
- Bonus Material: Full Interview with Profs. Constance Cook and Mark Csikszenmihalyi
- Final Exam
- Conclusion Video
- Exit Survey
- Video Outtakes
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