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World Philosophies: China

Course
2024-2025

Admission requirements

Admission to this course is restricted to:

  • BA students in Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives;

  • Pre-master’s students in Philosophy who are in possession of an admission statement, and for whom this course is part of their programme.

Description

This course will introduce students to the major early philosophical traditions of China that originated during the Warring States Period, including Confucianism, Mohism, Daoism, and Legalism.

Students will explore both the distinct ideas and arguments as well as overlapping frameworks of these traditions of thought as they attempted to respond to the urgent moral, social, political and envisioned cosmological crises out of which they emerged.

Course objectives

Students who successfully complete the course will have a good understanding of:

  • the life and socio-historical background of the selected thinkers and texts;

  • the content and philosophical framework of the selected thinkers and texts;

  • the key concepts and questions and their evolution in the intellectual history of China.

Timetable

The timetables are available through MyTimetable.

Mode of instruction

  • Lectures and discussions.

Class attendance is required.

Assessment method

Assessment

  • Midterm written examination;

  • Final written examination.

Weighing

The final mark for the course is established by determination of the weighted average of the two subtests:

  • Midterm written examination (50%);

  • Final written examination (50%).

Resit

The resit consists of an take home examination and covers the final exam only. The grade for the midterm exam remains in place. No separate resit will be offered for the midterm test.

Inspection and feedback

How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.

Reading list

Van Norden & Ivanhoe, eds., Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy.

The course syllabus will be distributed via Brightspace.

Registration

Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website.

Registration Exchange

For the registration of exchange students contact Humanities International Office.

Contact

  • For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.

  • For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Huizinga.

Remarks

Not applicable.