PHL237H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Filial Piety, Chinese Philosophy, Western Philosophy
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What are the special characteristics of chinese philosophy in comparison with western philosophy: language, chinese: pictograms/ ideograms expresses ideas through images (tian, great human, western: alphabetical system/ abstract. Peril security/ comprehensible and applicable to many things, enable a man to be a man: western: starts with theoretical interest/ intellectual curiosity/ philosophized to escape ignorance pursuing science to know but not applied, not for any utilitarian end. Write down three names of those texts and tell succinctly their main ideas and contributions to chinese philosophy: book of odes. Expressed feeling/ affectivity as the essential mode of human existence: book of documents. History of humans and function of practical reason in judging historical events: book of changes. According to fung yu-lan, what are the six classics serving as teaching materials in the. Classical confucianism: book of changes, book of odes, book of history, rituals/ rites, music, spring and autumn annals.
