Big Ideas and Great Debates in Chinese Intellectual History
Religion and Culture · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Every Second Year
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No prerequisites listed, you can take this course without prior coursework.
Description
This course explores the intellectual history of pre-modern China. By taking a thematic approach to leading intellectual currents within Chinese thought, the course critically examines debated and contested ideas between and among a diversity of schools of Chinese thought, including, but not limited to, Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. The course is based on close reading of primary text materials in translation and students are required to engage in debate during class hours.
Restrictions
Students may not hold credit for this course and EALC-2774.
Cross-listed
EALC-2774(3).
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