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PHIL217 Philosophy of East and West

10 cp
Prerequisites
1 Philosophy unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation Lectures, tutorials, seminars.

Historically, Philosophy in the West and Philosophy in India and East Asia have developed in their own distinctive ways though never in complete isolation and not without similarities of debate and ideas. This unit will introduce the student to Eastern philosophy by presenting a comparative approach to a range of philosophical questions, drawing upon eastern and western traditions and thinkers. It will review western and eastern treatments of various issues, including the nature of human knowing, ultimate reality, and right conduct; and, besides selected western philosophical ideas, it will examine such eastern traditions of philosophy (and thinkers) as the Vedanta (Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva) Madhayamika (Nagarjuna), Confucianism, Daoism, and Zen (Dogen).

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