Schedule of Classes and Assigned Readings

Schedule of Classes ● Links to Class Introductions, Assigned Readings, and PowerPoint Slides ●
Weekly Classes	Monday	Wednesday	Friday

1-3	Introduction	Western Patterns of Thought	Before Philosophy in China
4-6	Confucianism, the Ru, and the Analects	Confucius on Moral Perfection	Ritual and Man's Social Nature
7-9	Heaven in the Analects	History and Timeliness in the Analects	The Significance of Disciples
10-12	Mohism: Doctrine and Argumentation	The Significance of Standards in Mohism	Mohist Logic and Theory of Language
13-15	Mohism's Attack on the Ru	Mencius's Career & Anti-Mohism	The Source of Virtue in Mencius
16-18	Mencius on Human Nature as Good	Mencius on the Meaning of History	Mencius on Fate as Moral Opportunity
19-21	Daoism: Laozi and the Dao de jing	The Paradox of the Dao de jing	Zhuangzi's Daoist Imagination
22-24	Zhuangzi: Language and Experience	Zhuangzi: Philosophy and Skill	Zhuangzi on Sagehood and Social Life
25-27	Zhuangzi on Life and Death	"The Inner Enterprise"	Naturalism
28-30	Legalism	Han Feizi's Legalism and "Huang-Lao"	Xunzi on Study
31-33	Xunzi on the Mind	Xunzi on Heaven	Xunzi on Ritual
34-36	Xunzi: Our Bad Nature as Promise	Xunzi on Man and the Cosmos	*The Great Learning*
37-39	The Doctrine of the Mean I	The Doctrine of the Mean II	*The Yi jing*
40	The Spring & Autumn Annals