Admission requirements
Admission to one of the following programmes is required:
MA Philosophy 60 EC: specialisation Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Culture
MA Philosophy 120 EC: specialisation Philosophy of Humanities
Description
This special Topics in Comparative Philosophy course will be devoted to an examination of Cross-Cultural Philosophical Hermeneutics, or the theory of textual and cultural interpretation. Our approach will be to examine instances in cross-cultural philosophical encounter between modern to contemporary Asian and Western thinkers to see what lessons we can draw from these encounters.
We will in this course be reading analytical works on two seminal modern European philosophers, namely Leibniz and Heidegger, who spent considerable parts of their philosophical careers studying aspects of Buddhist, Confucian and Daoist thought and who, in varying degrees, were philosophically influenced by these traditions. We will then turn to two contemporary Asian philosophers, namely J.N. Mohanty and the Dalai Lama, who have turned their study of different Western philosophical traditions, phenomenology and philosophy of science, to analyses of classical Asian systems of thought. We will, in the course of our studies, attempt to focus on the complex hermeneutic problems and possibilities of cross-cultural philosophical reflection, both for general historical and philosophical purposes as well as to hone good methodological skills for doing cross-cultural philosophical work ourselves.
Course objectives
To be announced.
Timetable
The timetable is available on the MA Philosophy 60 EC website and the MA Philosophy 120 EC website
Mode of instruction
- Seminars
Class attendance is required.
Course Load
Total course load 10 EC x 28 hours = 280 hours
- Class attendance: 13 x 3 = 39 hours
Further calculation of the course load to be announced.
Assessment method
Assessment
Attendance and participation in class discussions (10%)
Class group presentations (10%)
Midterm paper (40%)
Final paper (40%)
Weighing
The final mark for the course is established by determination of the weighted average of several subtests. A subtest can be graded as unsatisfactory.
Class attendance is required – without sufficient attendance students will be excluded from submitting a final paper.
Academic Integrity
Students who plagiarize assignments or cheat on any test will receive failing grades on the assignment, and may be dropped from the class. All such instances will also be reported to the appropriate university office.
Resit
The resit will consists of one examination, a paper. The mark will replace all previously earned marks. No separate resits will be offered for mid-term tests. Class preparation and attendance are required and are conditions for submission of the paper for the resit.
Students who have obtained a satisfactory grade for the first examination(s) cannot take the resit.
Exam review
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.
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used for:
To be announced.
Reading list
Required reading materials
Franklin Perkins, Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light. Cambridge, 2004 (on reserve).
Lin Ma, Heidegger on East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event. Routledge, 2007.
J.N. Mohanty, Essays on Indian Philosophy: Traditional and Modern. Oxford, 1993.
Dalai Lama, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality. Broadway Press, 2006.
Registration
Enrolment for courses and exams through uSis is mandatory.
Students are strongly advised to register in uSis through the activity number which can be found in the timetables for courses and exams.
Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs
Not applicable.
Contact
Remarks
Not applicable.