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PODCAST

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

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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All Episodes

22:48

HPC 31. Push and Pull: Mohist Dialectic

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/06/01

Later Mohists explained in the Canons how to provide compelling philosophical arguments, and how to avoid mistakes in argumentation. Does this count as “logic”?

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22:40

HPC 30. Horse of a Different Color: the Mohists on...

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/05/18

What Mohist dialectics and Gongsun Long’s “White Horse Not Horse” argument tell us about the connection between language and knowledge.

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18:31

HPC 29. Ghost Writers: the Mohists on Religion

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/05/04

Did Mozi tell people that ghosts exist and that we can change our fate because he thought these things are true, or because it would be beneficial for people to believe them?

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29:55

HPC 28. Ting Mien Lee on Mohism and Confucianism

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/04/20

An interview on the contrasting views of Mohists and Confucians on ethical duties and warfare.

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19:13

HPC 27. Give Peace a Chance: the Mohists on War and...

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/04/06

How the Mohist principle of “inclusive care” leads to political order and (mostly) forbids the fighting of wars.

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18:38

HPC 26. Culture Wars: Mohist and Confucian Debates

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/03/23

Disagreements between the Mohists and the Confucians: is seeking benefits the right way to approach life? What motivates us to act morally, care for our loved ones or a doctrine of impartiality?

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20:34

HPC 25. Benefit, Then Stop: Mohism and Impartial Care

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/03/09

How did the Mohists establish their consequentialist ethic of “impartial care (jian ’ai)”? Was this theory ultimately grounded in the will of Heaven?

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20:19

HPC 24. Measuring Up: Mohist philosophy

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/02/23

An introduction to the Mozi, the founding text of an anti-elitist school of thought that tests social and political practices by the measure of “benefit.”

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35:24

HPC. 23 Amy Olberding on Confucian Ethics

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/02/09

In our final episode on classical Confucianism, our interview guest tells us about the surprising moral depth of the concept of "etiquette"

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18:18

HPC 22. Inside Job: Women in Confucianism

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/01/26

Can classical Confucianism be redeemed from its reputation for rigidly hierarchical thinking when it comes to the relationship between men and women?

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38:34

HPC 21. Sor-Hoon Tan on Confucian Democracy

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/01/12

Can classical Confucian ideas be adapted to produce a theory of democracy fit for today's world?

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19:38

HPC 20. Heaven Can Wait: Ritual and Religion in...

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2024/12/29

Were Confucian ideas about Heaven, ritual, and fate driven by a religious attitude, or a naturalistic one?

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20:30

HPC 19. The Kingly Way: Confucian Political Philosophy

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2024/12/15

Mengzi and Xunzi show that a Confucian political theory need not be idealistic.

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29:42

HPC 18. Erica Brindley on Music and the Cosmos in...

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2024/12/01

An interview about the "resonant cosmos" in early Confucianism, and the role played by music in linking sages to the universe.

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18:24

HPC 17. Knowing Me, Knowing You: Confucian Epistemology

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2024/11/17

The role of knowing in Confucian ethics: should it be understood as “knowing how,” or even “knowing to,” rather than “knowing that”?

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24:01

HPC 16. To Become or Not to Become: the Confucians on...

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2024/11/03

Morality is what makes us humans, for the Confucians. But does morality come from inside us, outside us, or both?

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22:00

HPC 15. Flexing Your Moral Muscles: Xunzi on Moral...

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2024/10/20

Xunzi, a thinker who shaped the course of Confucian philosophy by showing how deliberate effort can overcome our wicked natural tendencies.

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21:18

HPC 014. Every Man for Himself: Virtue and the Body

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2024/10/06

Several ancient Chinese texts speak of an egoist and hedonist known as Yang Zhu: did he pose a coherent challenge to the Confucians and other ethicists?

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22:29

HPC 013. The Trembling Ox: Mengzi and the...

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2024/09/22

In the Mengzi, the text that bears his name, Mengzi ("Mencius") holds that the human heart-mind is the wellspring of goodness.

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26:18

HPC 12. Gentlemen’s Agreement: Confucian Virtue Ethics

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2024/09/08

Should the remarkable parallels between Aristotelian and Confucian ethics lead us to classify Confucianism as a type of “virtue ethics”?

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