| Description |
18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (160 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). |
| Series |
The Great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Grant Hardy, University of North Carolina, Ashville, lecturer. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Set of 3 volumes, each in a separate container (19 cm.), with a course guidebook of the same title; thirty-six lectures at 30 min. each. |
| Summary |
Western philosophy is a vast intellectual tradition, the product of thousands of years of revolutionary thought built up by a rich collection of brilliant minds. When most of us study philosophy, we're focusing only on the Western intellectual tradition brought about by people such as Aristotle, Descartes, and Nietzsche. But to understand the Western intellectual tradition is to only get half of the story. Just as important, and just as valid a contribution to philosophy, is the Eastern intellectual tradition. Eastern philosophy is also the product of thousands of years of thought and was also built up by a distinct group of brilliant thinkers. Among these are Buddha, Confucius, Gandhi, and Zarathustra. Their ideas demonstrate fascinating, wholly different ways of approaching, understanding, and solving the same fundamental questions that concerned the West's greatest thinkers, such as the existence of God, the meaning of life, the nature of truth and reality, the organization of government and society, the significance of suffering, and the roots of a well-lived life. To explore Eastern perspectives on these issues is to embark on an illuminating journey into the heart of grand, but often unfamiliar, civilizations. It's also a thought-provoking way to understand the surprising connections and differences between East and West, and to strengthen your knowledge of cultures that play increasingly important roles in our globalized 21st-century world. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Life's great questions: Asian perspectives ; The Vedas and Upanishads: the beginning -- Disc 2. Mahavira and Jainism: extreme nonviolence ; The Buddha: the middle way -- Disc 3. The Bhagavad Gita: the way of action ; Confucius: in praise of sage-kings -- Disc 4. Laozi and Daoism: the way of nature ; The Hundred Schools of pre-imperial China -- Disc 5. Mencius and Xunzi: Confucius's successors ; Sunzi and Han Feizi: strategy and legalism -- Disc 6. Zarathustra and Mani: dualistic religion ; Kautilya and Ashoka: Buddhism and empire -- Disc 7. Ishvarakrishna and Patanjali: Yoga ; Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu: Buddhist theories -- Disc 8. Sima Qian and Ban Zhao: history and women ; Dong Zhongshu and Ge Hong: eclecticism -- Disc 9. Xuanzang and Chinese Buddhism ; Prince Shotoku, Lady Murasaki, Sei Shonagon -- Disc 10. Saicho to Nichiren: Japanese Buddhism ; Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva: Hindu Vedanta -- Disc 11. Al-Biruni: Islam in India ; Nanak and Sirhindi: Sikhism and Sufism -- Disc 12. Han Yu to Zhu Xi: Neo-Confucianism ; Wang Yangming: The study of heart-mind -- Disc 13. Dogen and Hakuin: Zen Buddhism ; Zeami and Sen no Rikyu: Japanese aesthetics -- Disc 14. Wonhyo to King Sejong: Korean philosophy ; Padmasambhava to Tsongkhapa: Tibetan ideas -- Disc 15. Science and technology in premodern Asia ; Muhammad Iqbal and Rabindranath Tagore -- Disc 16. Mohandas Gandhi: Satyagraha, or soul-force ; Fukuzawa Yukichi and Han Yongun -- Disc 17. Kang Youwei and Hu Shi ; Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong -- Disc 18. Modern legacies ; East and West. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Asian.
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Philosophers.
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Intellectual life -- History.
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Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophy and civilization.
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Philosophy -- Miscellanea.
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Civilization, Oriental.
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Civilization, Oriental. (OCoLC)fst00863115
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Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
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Philosophers. (OCoLC)fst01060746
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Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
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Philosophy and civilization. (OCoLC)fst01060822
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Philosophy, Asian. (OCoLC)fst01060880
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01423854
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| Note |
Title on container spine: Great minds of the East |
| ISBN |
1598037404 (set) |
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9781598037401 (set) |
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9781598037425 |
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1598037420 |
| Music No. |
4620 Teaching Company |
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