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Syllabus for a course on The History of Philosophy

Central University, Beijing

Instructor: 卜若柏（Robert Blohm）

March 6, 2008

Chronological list of lecture topics:

Early Greece & influences from Egypt and Babylon.  Orphic mysticism and Milesian rationalism.  Anaximander and primal substance. Pythagoras & theory.  Heraclitus & change. Parmenides & the one. Empedocles. Anaxagoras & the life principle. Atomism.  Protagoras and Sophism.

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

Alexander & the Roman Empire. Cynics & Skeptics.  Stoics & Zeno. Epicurians & Diogenes Laertius. 

Middle Ages.  Plotinus: neo-Platonism & Christianity. Doctors of the Church: Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Gregory the Great. Pseudo-Dionysius. Scotus Erigena.  Moslems: Avicenna, Averroes, al-Farabi, al-Kindi, ibn Khaldun.  Scholasticism:  Aquinas, Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, William of Occam.

Chinese philosophy.  Comparison of Confucianism and Taoism with Platonism and Aristotelianism and earlier Greek philosophies, and their respective dominance in the Chou and Han Dynasties.  Comparison of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle with Confucius, Mencius, and Lao Tsu.  Comparison of School of Names with Greek mathematical analysis and logic, and Legalist School with ancient Rome.  Mohism and rise of Taoism.  Chou, Qin and Han dynasties compared to contemporary early ancient Greece, mature ancient Greece and ancient Rome.  Entry of Buddhism in China compared to contemporary emergence of Christianity in ancient Rome.  West (India) versus far-West in China.  Neo-Confucianism and Neo-Taoism compared with ancient Greek philosophy adapted to the Christian middle ages.  The role of the examination system in perpetuating ancient Chinese philosophy for two millennia.  Philosophical importance of European civilization as commerce and sea based versus Chinese as agriculture, land & family based.

Renaissance. Machievelli. Erasmus. Thomas More.  China's technology influence: the printing press--enabled protestantism & mathematical-notation.  Experimentalism: Galileo, Copernicus, Francis Bacon.

Rationalism: Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, Encyclopedists.

Politics & ethics: Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke.

Empiricism: Berkeley, Hume, Kant.

Idealism: Rousseau, Helvetius, Condorcet, Hegel.

Existentialism: Fichte, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche

Social organization: Darwin, Utilitarianism, Marx & Engels, Mao Zhedong.

Pragmatism: James, Dewey, Bridgman

Phenomenology: Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger.

Scientific methodology and foundations of science and mathematics: Compte, Hilbert, Frege, Russell, Logical Positivism, Popper, Bunge. 

References:

Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy , London: Routledge 2000. (Best-selling  

    philosophy book of the 20th century)
Fung Yu Lan, A Short History of Chinese Philosophy, New York: Macmillan 1958.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu

Mario Bunge, Causality, Cleveland & New York: Meridian 1963.

Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man.

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Syllabus for a course on The History of Philosophy

Central Finance University, Beijing

Instructor: 卜若柏（ Robert Blohm ）

March 6, 2008

Chronological list of lecture topics:

Early Greece & influences from Egypt and Babylon. Orphic mysticism and Milesian rationalism. Anaximander and primal substance. Pythagoras & theory. Heraclitus & change. Parmenides & the one. Empedocles. Anaxagoras & the life principle. Atomism. Protagoras and Sophism.

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

Alexander & the Roman Empire. Cynics & Skeptics. Stoics & Zeno. Epicurians & Diogenes Laertius.

Middle Ages. Plotinus: neo-Platonism & Christianity. Doctors of the Church: Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Gregory the Great. Pseudo-Dionysius. Scotus Erigena. Moslems: Avicenna, Averroes, al-Farabi, al-Kindi, ibn Khaldun. Scholasticism: Aquinas, Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, William of Occam.

Chinese philosophy. Comparison of Confucianism and Taoism with Platonism and Aristotelianism and earlier Greek philosophies, and their respective dominance in the Chou and Han Dynasties. Comparison of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle with Confucius, Mencius, and Lao Tsu. Comparison of School of Names with Greek mathematical analysis and logic, and Legalist School with ancient Rome. Mohism and rise of Taoism. Chou, Qin and Han dynasties compared to contemporary early ancient Greece, mature ancient Greece and ancient Rome. Entry of Buddhism in China compared to contemporary emergence of Christianity in ancient Rome. West (India) versus far-West in China. Neo-Confucianism and Neo-Taoism compared with ancient Greek philosophy adapted to the Christian middle ages. The role of the examination system in perpetuating ancient Chinese philosophy for two millennia. Philosophical importance of European civilization as commerce and sea based versus Chinese as agriculture, land & family based.

Renaissance. Machievelli. Erasmus. Thomas More. China's technology influence: the printing press--enabled protestantism & mathematical-notation. Experimentalism: Galileo, Copernicus, Francis Bacon.

Rationalism: Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, Encyclopedists.

Politics & ethics: Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke.

Empiricism: Berkeley, Hume, Kant.

Idealism: Rousseau, Helvetius, Condorcet, Hegel.

Existentialism: Fichte, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche

Social organization: Darwin, Utilitarianism, Marx & Engels, Mao Zhedong.

Pragmatism: James, Dewey, Bridgman

Phenomenology: Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger.

Scientific methodology and foundations of science and mathematics: Compte, Hilbert, Frege, Russell, Logical Positivism, Popper, Bunge.

References:

Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy , London: Routledge 2000. (Best-selling 

   philosophy book of the 20th century)
Fung Yu Lan, A Short History of Chinese Philosophy , New York: Macmillan 1958.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu

Mario Bunge, Causality , Cleveland & New York: Meridian 1963.

Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man .