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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.

society & culture philosophy

All Episodes

42:27

HPC 39. Robin Wang on Yin-Yang Thinking

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/10/26

An interview on the pervasive use of the yin-yang relational pair in classical Chinese thought generally, and in Daoism in particular.

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23:38

HPC 38. Easy Does It: Non-Action in the Laozi

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/10/12

The concept of wuwei or “non-action”: does it mean that the perfect sage or political ruler simply never does anything?

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16:45

HPC 37. She Stoops to Conquer: Femininity in the Laozi

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/09/28

How the Laozi (Daodejing) applies the lessons of complementarity to the contrast between male and female.

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17:48

HPC 36. Fishing for Complements: Polarities in Daoism

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/09/14

The significance of the Laozi’s use of opposing pairs, which are treated as complementary rather as exclusive dichotomies.

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21:30

HPC 35. Way Better than Greenwashing: Daoism on Nature

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/07/27

The Laozi (Daodejing) refers to the winds, the rain and the waters. We discuss how these ideas express the Laozi’s views on nature.

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23:31

HPC 34. You Don’t Say! the Dao That Cannot Be Told

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/07/13

The first rule of dao is: don’t talk about dao. We do so nonetheless, focusing on its role in metaphysics and language.

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18:14

HPC 33. Let Us Count the Ways: What is Daoism?

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/06/29

What does “Daoism” refer to in a range of contexts, and how have excavated texts changed our understanding of the tensions between Daoism and Confucianism?

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35:15

HPC 32. Chris Fraser on Mohism

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China ·

2025/06/15

We conclude our series on Mohism with an interview that looks at the Mohists' dialectic and its relationship to their ethics.

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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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