Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy (中國古代哲學導論)

Masayuki Sato (哲學所  佐藤將之)

The course provides a contextual and evolutionary account for how various Chinese classical thoughts…

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中國古代哲學導論

哲學所 佐藤將之

課程簡介

中文課程名稱：中國古代哲學導論
英文課程名稱：Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy
授課教師：佐藤將之
學分數：2學分
開課單位：哲學所
建立日期：2011 年 9 月

課程概述

The course provides a contextual and evolutionary account for how various Chinese classical thoughts came into several highly organized socio-political theories, with particular focus on the great intellectual development between the late 4th and the early 3rd century BC.

課程目標

This is an English graduate course and is designed for both international students who want to acquire basic knowledge about the main issues and arguments in Chinese classical philosophy, and for Chinese students who want to learn skills to ponder and discuss the relevant subjects in English.

課程要求

This seminar welcomes international students whose mother tongue is not Chinese. In this case, the ability to recognize historical names, events and terminologies by Chinese characters is necessary to follow the course.

成績評量方式

1. a mid-term paper (20%)
2. a final paper (50%)
3. presentation (10%)
4. participation (20%)

指定閱讀

Assigned Reading 

延伸閱讀

Extended reading 

(1) C. Defoort: “Is There such a Thing as Chinese Philosophy? Arguments of an Implicit Debate,” Philosophy East and West, Vol. 51, Number 3, July 2001, pp. 393-413.
(2) Y. L. Fung: A Short History of Chinese Philosophy. NY: The Free Press, 1966.
(3) F. Mote: Intellectual Foundation of China. NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971
(4) M. E. Lewis: “The Warring States Political History.” Loewe and Shaughnessy (ed.): The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
(5) M. Sato: The Confucian Quest for Order: The Origin and Formation of the Political Thought of Xun Zi. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
(6) H. Fingarett: Confucius: Secular as Sacred, New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
(7) A. C. Graham: Disputers of Tao, Philosophical Argument in Ancient China, La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1989.
(8) B. W. Van Norden: Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2008.
(9) B. Schwartz: The World of Thought in Ancient China. MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.
(10) K.C. Hsiao (trans. By F. W. Mote): The History of Chinese Political Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.

Translations from Chinese Classical Texts
(1) T. de Bary and W. T. Chan (ed.): Sources of Chinese Tradition. Vol. 1, New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.
(2) Burton Watson’s translation of the Mozi, the Zhuangzi, the Xunzi and the Hanfeizi from Columbia University Press. Very readable, but the series translates only a “main” part of those texts.
(3) Chinese Text Project (http://ctext.org/) also provides English translations from a large number of early Chinese philosophical texts. Due to the restriction on copyright, most of translations were made before 1940s.