Peter Adamson teams up with Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers, and Karyn Lai to represent the philosophical traditions of ancient India, Africa and the African diaspora, and classical China. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.
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HPC 013. The Trembling Ox: Mengzi and the Compassionate Heart
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In the Mengzi, the text that bears his name, Mengzi ("Mencius") holds that the human heart-mind is the wellspring of goodness.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HPC 12. Gentlemen’s Agreement: Confucian Virtue Ethics
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Should the remarkable parallels between Aristotelian and Confucian ethics lead us to classify Confucianism as a type of “virtue ethics”?By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HPC 011. Mark Csikszentmihalyi on Early Confucianism
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In this interview, we learn how Kongzi become the pivotal sage of early Chinese history, and what new discoveries teach us about the Confucian tradition.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HPC 10. We’re a Pack Animal: Individual and Society in Confucianism
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What does the Analects say about living as a human being? How are individuals embedded in society, and how do they develop their unique identities?By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HPC 09. Family Values: Confucian Role Ethics
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Confucianism puts relationships with family members at the core of their ethical thinking. Is this a strength or a weakness?By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HPC 08. Confucius Says: Reading the Analects
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Lessons we can take from the teachings of Kongzi (Confucius) in the Analects: challenging authorities, adhering to “benevolence (ren),” and practicing “propriety (li)” in ritual and everyday life.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HPC 07. Uncrowned King: Kongzi (Confucius) and the Analects
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An introduction to Kongzi, the founder of Confucianism, and to the text that has come to represent his thought, the Lunyu (Analects).By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HPC 06. Franklin Perkins on Excavated Texts
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In this interview, we learn how newly discovered texts are changing our understanding of Warring States period philosophy.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HPC 05. Going Paperless: Ancient Chinese Texts
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What were ancient Chinese philosophical texts written on? How did writing relate to orally transmitted wisdom? How were texts read and used? And what even counted as a “text” in ancient China?By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HPC 04. Open Season: the Historical Context
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The historical context of classical Chinese philosophy, and how ancient Chinese historical works themselves became works of philosophy.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HPC 03. Karyn Lai on Classical Chinese Philosophy
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Co-host Karyn introduces herself to the listeners and talks about the challenges of tackling classical Chinese philosophical texts.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HPC 02. The Only Constant: Change and the "Yi Jing"
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Early Chinese philosophers were deeply aware of a world that is constantly changing: we look at how Confucians, Legalists, and Daoists responded to this challenge.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HPC 01. Journey of a Thousand Li: Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
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Introducing Chinese philosophy through the concept of "dao," a fundamental word in classical Chinese philosophy, with a range of meanings across its different traditions.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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How Africana philosophy looked to a young Chike Jeffers, coming into the field in the early 21st century.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HAP 141 - Job Openings - the Rise of Africana Professional Philosophy
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The key events and figures in philosophy as an academic discipline, in both Africa and the diaspora.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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Cornel West joins us to look back on the development of his thought and the many authors who have inspired him.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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An introduction to Cornel West, focusing on his early essay “Philosophy and the Afro-American Experience.”By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HAP 138 - Taking it Out of Neutral - Critical Race Theory
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A movement of legal scholars diagnoses the limitations of merely “formal” measures against discrimination, a point they connect to issues like affirmative action, democratic process, and intersectionality.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HAP 137 - Asante Sana - Molefi Asante’s Afrocentricity
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What inspired Asante's controversial philosophy of Afrocentricity, and its relationship to religion, nationalism, and feminism.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HAP 136 - Civilization Reclaimed - African-Centered Thought
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How writers like George G.M. James, John Henrik Clarke, Cheikh Anta Diop, Yosef ben-Jochannan, and Chancellor Williams prepared the way for the Afrocentricity of Molefi Asante and captured the imaginations of hip hop artists and intellectuals like Ta-Nehisi Coates.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HAP 135 - Mastering Ceremonies - Sylvia Wynter
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Sylvia Wynter offers a bold and provocative assessment of the role of the humanities in understanding humankind.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HAP 134 - The Marx Brothers - Cedric J. Robinson
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Cedric J. Robinson reflects on the power and limitations of Marxism while charting the past and prospects of black radical thought.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HAP 133 - John Drabinski on Edouard Glissant
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The author of an important book on Glissant joins us to talk about his approach to this major Caribbean thinker.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HAP 132 - French Creolizing - Edouard Glissant and the Creolité Movement
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Poet, novelist, playwright and philosopher Edouard Glissant, his theory of "creolization", and the Creolists who were influence by him.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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HAP 131 - Mixed Messages - Black British Cultural Studies
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Stuart Hall pioneers “cultural studies,” offering tools for analysis of films, television, fiction and music that were put to use by followers like Paul Gilroy and Hazel Carby.By Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
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