Asian Philosophies | The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy

Our schedule for 2024 is every Saturday 2:00pm Pacific (5:00pm East)
Reading and discussing "A Short History of Chinese Philosophy" by Fung Yu-Lan (Feng Youlan 馮友蘭)
Amazon - https://a.co/d/2ENfKPL
Archive.org https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.260423
Please Read The Chapter 1 - The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy
There are 28 chapters in this book. Each chapter is an independent article about the Chinese Philosophy. We are going to discuss one chapter per meetup.
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1. The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy (2024-01-20)
2. The Background of Chinese Philosophy
3. The Origin of the Schools
4. Confucius, The First Teacher
5. Mo Tzu, The First Opponent of Confucius
6. The First Phase of Taoism: Yang Chu
7. The Idealistic Wing of Confucianism: Mencius
8. The School of Names
9. The Second Phase of Taoism: Lao Tzu
10. The Third Phase of Taoism: Chung Tzu
11. The Later Mohists
12. The Yin-Yang School and Early Chinese Cosmology
13. The Realistic Wing of Confucianism: Hsun Tzu
14. Han Fei Tzu and The Legalist School
15. Confucianist Metaphysics
16. World Politics and World Philosophy
17. Theorizer of the Han Empire: Tung Chung-Shu
18. The Ascendancy of Confucianism and Revival of Taoism
19. Neo-Taoism: The Rationalists
20. Neo-Taoism: The Sentimentalists
21. The Foundation of Chinese Buddhism
22. Ch’anism (Zen Buddhism), The Philosophy of Silence
23. Neo-Confucianism: The Cosmologists
24. Neo-Confucianism: The Beginning of The Two Schools
25. Neo-Confucianism: The School of Platonic Ideas
26. Neo-Confucianism: The School of Universal Mind
27. The Introduction of Western Philosophy
28. Chinese Philosophy in the Modern World

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Please see our 2023 meetup recordings and reading materials :
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Please see our 2024 meetup schedule, recordings and reading materials:
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