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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf Study, Virtual ClassroomVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 4075yesThe University of British Columbia, Vancouver

The Syllabus

  • Course Outline
  • Course Schedule
  • Course Team
  • Guest Lecturers
  • General Course Questions
  • Introduce Yourself!
  • Entry Survey

  • Introduction Video

  • Module 5 Introduction
  • Mencius and the New World of Late-Warring States Thought
  • Mencius and Gaozi: Where Do You “Get” Rightness?
  • Human Nature is “Good”: Mencius and the Moral Sprouts
  • Evidence for the Sprouts: Mencian
  • Evidence for the Sprouts: Modern Scientific
  • Emotion vs. Reason: Mencian Sentimentalism
  • “Extension”: The Importance of Moral Imagination
  • Mencian Gradualism and Internalism: The Wisdom of the Body
  • The Paradox of Wu-wei in the Mencius
  • Module 5 Discussions
  • Module 5 Quiz
  • Bonus Material: Full interview with Prof. Kiley Hamlin (UBC)

  • Module 6 Introduction
  • Zhuangzi and the Zhuangzi
  • Fallenness: Getting Rid of the Human Essence
  • Undergrowth in the Head: The Problem of Fixed Ideas
  • Qi and the Fasting of the Mind
  • Guided by the Spirit: Skill Stories in the Zhuangzi
  • Zhuangzi and the Embodied Mind
  • Drunk on Heaven: In the World But Not of It
  • The Paradox of Wu-wei in the Zhuangzi
  • Module 6 Discussions
  • Module 6 Quiz
  • Bonus Material: Full Interview with Prof. Evan Thompson (UBC)

  • Module 7 Introduction
  • Xunzi and the Return to Externalism
  • Xunzi on the Mind and Free Will
  • Xunzi on the Origins of Confucian Culture
  • Building Cold Into Hot: Xunzian Wu-wei
  • Heavenly and Human: The World’s First Functionalist Theory of Religion
  • A Perennial Debate: Xunzi vs. Mencius / Conservatism and Liberalism
  • Han Feizi and Legalism
  • Standards, Methods and The Power of Position
  • Institutional Wu-wei: Institutionalism à la Machiavelli
  • Module 7 Discussions
  • Module 7 Quiz
  • Bonus Material: Full interview with Prof. Joseph Henrich (UBC)

  • Module 8 Introduction
  • Conclusion Video: Why Study Religion in a Secular World? What Can We Learn from Early Chinese Religion?
  • Bonus Material: Full Interview with Prof. Mark Csikszentmihalyi

  • Final Exam

  • Exit Survey
  • Video Outtakes

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