Universität Wien

150215 UE UE GG: Chinese Philosophy - Chinese Philosophy traditional characteristics and modern trends (2012W)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 15 - Ostasienwissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 30 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 01.10. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 08.10. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 15.10. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 22.10. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 29.10. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 05.11. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 12.11. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 19.11. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 26.11. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 03.12. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 10.12. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 17.12. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 07.01. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 14.01. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 21.01. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10
  • Monday 28.01. 13:10 - 14:40 Seminarraum Sinologie 1 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-10

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

- Introduction – Chinese philosophy: Fact or Fiction?
- Specific features. Chronology, concepts and categories
- The necessity and the problems of discursive translations
- Ancient philosophy – the historical background. Confucianism and its 3 reforms (original teachings, establishment of state ideology, Modern Confucianism)
- Daoism
- Classical Chinese logic
- Legalism
- Neodaoism
- Buddhism
- Neoconfucianism
- Pre-modern philosophy
- Euro-American philosophy in China.
- Modern Philosophy
- Contemporary Philosophy
- Specific Chinese epistemology

Assessment and permitted materials

individual presentations (40%), oral exam – discussion of particular theoretical issues in small groups

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Understanding of basic features (also in comparison to Euro-American philosophy), mastering of binary categories, theoretical understanding of special methodological features and of the problems, linked to discursive translations, the ability for critical interpretation of concrete philosophical issues, the influence of traditional discourses upon the ideas and ideologies in the present-day China

Examination topics

lecture with PP presentation, group discussions

Reading list

Bauer, Wolfgang, 2000: Geschichte der chinesischen Philosophie. München: Verlag C.H. Beck

Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, 2002 (Ed. Cheng Chung-Ying und Bunnin, Nicholas). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Fung, Yu-lan, 1976: A Short History of Chinese Philosophy. New York: The Free Press
Graham, A.C., 1989: Disputers of the Tao – Philosophical Argument in Ancient China. Chicago: Open Court Publishing
Hall, David L. in Ames, Roger T., 2003: Chinese philosophy. V: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (ur. E. Craig). Routledge, London 1998. In: http://www.rep.routledge.com/article /G001SECT10

Mall, Ram Adhar, 1995: Philosophie im Vergleich der Kulturen. Darmstadt: Primus Verlag

Ro¨ker, Jana S., 2008: Searching for the Way. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press

Zhang, Dainian, 2002: Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy (Übersetzung: Ryden, Edmund). New Haven, London, Beijing: Yale University Press, Foreign Languages Press

Zusatzliteratur in chinesischer Sprache:
Chen Junhui 陳俊輝, 1992: 中國哲學思想的古今. Taibei: Shuiniu chuban she
Zhang Yunxun 张云勋und Zhang Lixun 张礼勋, 1999: 中国哲学基本范畴与文化传统. Guiyang: Guizhou minzu chuban she

Association in the course directory

GG 220

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