HISTORY OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIONS 1

This is one of the mandatory courses within the China/Korea curricula of the Corso di Laurea in "Lingue, Culture e Società dell'Asia e dell'Africa Mediterranea"

Basic knowledge of the foundations of thought and religions in pre-buddhist China.

The course does not require any prerequisite

Chinese schools of thought from the origins to the Han period: theoretical foundations and applications.

Cheng, A., Il pensiero cinese, Torino, Einaudi, 1997, vol. 1.

Further insights on authors, works and schools of thought may be found in the following texts:

A.C. Graham, Disputers of the Tao. Philosophical Argument in Ancient China, La Salle, Open Court, 1989; trad. it. di R. Fracasso, La ricerca del Tao. Il dibattito filosofico nella Cina Classica, Vicenza, Neri Pozza, 1999.

Fung Yu-lan (tr. D. Bodde), A History of Chinese Philosophy, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1952.

Andreini, Attilio e Scarpari, Maurizio, Il daoismo, il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.

Scarpari, Maurizio, Il confucianesimo. I fondamenti e i testi, Einaudi, Torino, 2010.


Other sources will be suggested during the lectures.

The written test will consist of 25/30 questions concerning schools of thought, authors, works and dates of pre-buddhist chinese philosophy.

The course will consist of fifteen lectures.

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