Weekly Schedule PHIL213 W05 Eastern Philosophy
(Reading assignments are to be completed by the date under which they
are listed.)
RT = Required Text; CR = Course Reader; CR1 = Course Reader Selection
No. 1)
Introduction
1/3 Introduction: Western Logic & Eastern Logic: 3-step syllogism
& 4-step dialectic
Indian Philosophy - Hinduism
1/5 Early Practice & Logic; History & Transcendence. Reading:
Rg Veda, CR1.
1/7 Ascetics and Warriors: Yoga and Duty. Reading: Bhagavad Gita,
CR2, 3. Guest Lecture.
1/10 Comparison: Soren Kierkegaard's Knight of Faith. Reading: Fear
& Trembling, CR5.
1/12 Eros and Agape: Transgression & Transcendence. Reading:
Oriental Mythology, CR4.
Indian Philosophy - Buddhism
1/14 Early Buddhism: Life and Thought of Sakyamuni Buddha
1/17 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday (no class)
1/19 Mahayana Buddhism: Nagarjuna - Two-fold Truth and Four-Step
Dialectic.
Reading: Unno, Garfield, & Huntington, CR7, 8,
9
1/21 Mahayana Buddhism: Emptiness in Scripture. Rdg: The Holy
Teaching of Vimalakirti, CR10. Paper I due in class.
1/24 Special Lecture (required attendance, choose one; no regular
class meeting):
a) 1/23 8 p.m., Lillis 182 Roger Ames, U of Hawaii,
"Confucian Harmony"
b) 1/24 8 p.m., Lillis 182 Bardwell Smith, Carleton
College, "Beyond Stereotyping: The Enemy Has a Face."
Chinese Philosophy - Confucianism
1/26 Early Chinese Society and Confucius. Rdg: Fingarette, Confucius,
RT, vii-xi, 1-17.
1/28 Confucius and the Orchestral Vision. Rdg: Fingarette, Confucius,
RT, 18-56. Exam A in class.
Chinese Philosophy -Daoism
1/31 Zhuangzi & the Logic of Daoism. Rdg: Zhuangzi, RT, 1-30;
Ivanhoe, "Zhuangzi," CR12.
2/2 Zhuangzi & Skillfulness. Rdg: Zhuangzi, RT, 31- 88 (focus
pages: 31-49, 62-63, 78-81).
2/4 Zhuangzi, Life, & Death. Rdg: Zhuangzi, RT, 89-140 (focus
pages: 94-95, 126-140).
Chinese Philosophy - Buddhism
2/7 Chinese Philosophical Schools : San-lun & T'ien-t'ai. Rdg:
Unno "Ch Phil Schools," CR11.
2/9 Chinese Philosophical Schools : T'ien-t'ai & Hua-yen. Rdg:
Unno "Ch Phil Schools," CR11.
2/11 Zen (Chan) Buddhism. Rdg: Dumoulin, Zen Buddhism: A History,
CR13. Paper II due in class.
Japanese Philosophy - Zen Buddhism
2/14 Dogen: Rdg: "Philosophical Terms in the Zen Buddhist Thought of
Dogen," CR15.
2/16 Dogen & Soto Zen: Rdg: Dogen: "Shobogenzo Genjokoan,"
129-133, CR16.
2/18 Dogen & Soto Zen: Rdg: Dogen: "Shobogenzo Genjokoan,"
134-140, CR16.
2/21 Daoism: Special Guest Lecture, Hal Roth, Brown University, 7:30
p.m., Place TBA.
Attendance required. No regular class meeting.
Japanese Buddhism - Pure Land Buddhism
2/23 Comparison: Soren Kierkegaard's Relation Self. Rdg: Sickness
Unto Death, 13-21, 29-47, CR14.
2/25 Shinran and Shin Buddhism. Rdg: Unno "Key Terms : Pure Land
Buddhism, CR17. Exam B in class.
Rdg: Mark Unno, "The Nembutsu of No-Meaning and
the Problem of Genres," CR18.
2/28 Shinran. Rdg: Tannisho-A Shin Buddhist Classic, SECTIONS 1, 3,
13, 4, 8, Afterword, RT.
3/2 Shinran. Rdg: Tannisho-A Shin Buddhist Classic, SECTIONS 9, 5,
10, 6, Epilogue, RT.
Korean Buddhism
3/4 Comparison: Eros & Compassion. Rdg: Audre Lorde, "Uses of the
Erotic," CR20.
3/7 Classical Period: Wonhyo - Scholar and Transgressor. Rdg;
Thousand Peaks, 28-48, CR19.
3/9 Modern Period: Seung Sahn - East and West. Rdg; Thousand Peaks,
191-314, CR19.
3/11 Final Lecture. Final Papers Due in Class.