HPC 55. More Gain, Less Pain: the Legalists on Human Nature
Did the fa-thinkers recognize that human beings natural have moral capacities or dispositions? How did they try to manipulate human nature?
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20 of 260 episodesHPC 54. Learning to Unlearn: Han Feizi and Confucianism
Does Han Feizi’s focus on “standards” allow him to provide a more realistic political theory than the Confucian focus on moral cultivation?
HPC 53. A Worm Riding Clouds: Standards, Strategy and Power in the Han Feizi
The Han Feizi and its “three pillars” of Legalist philosophy: fa (standards), shu (strategy), and shi (positional power).
HPC 52. The Empire State: the Qin Dynasty
Was the short-lived Qin empire, which unified China to put an end to the Warring States period, Legalism in action?
HPC 51. Standard Bearers: What is “Legalism"?
The “fa-thinkers” Shang Yang and Han Feizi encourage the rigorous application of “standards,” including law, reward, and punishment.
HPC 50. Bryan Van Norden on Warring States Philosophy
To celebrate reaching 50 episodes in this series, Karyn and Peter both chat to a leading scholar of Warring States philosophy.
HPC 49. Hans-Georg Moeller on the Zhuangzi
An interview on humor and amoral ethics in a Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi - and its relation to Confucianism and Legalism.
HPC 48. Off the Beaten Path: Wandering in the Zhuangzi
How is it possible to walk two roads simultaneously? And where does wandering lead us?
HPC 47. Live and Let Die: the Zhuangzi on Death
Why does the Zhuangzi tell us that death is nothing to fear, to the point that it recommends celebrating the death of loved ones?
HPC 46. Turning the Tables: Confucius in the Zhuangzi
How are we to make sense of the different images of Kongzi (Confucius) in the Zhuangzi?
HPC 45. Practice Makes Perfect: Skill Stories in the Zhuangzi
In addition to sages who show us the way, the Zhuangzi features people taking on daily activities such as woodworking and butchering: we dis...
HPC 44. Like a Fish Out of Water: Animal Stories in the Zhuangzi
The many stories about animals in the Zhuangzi encourage us to adopt a perspective that goes beyond the human point of view.
HPC 43. Chiu Wai-Wai on the Zhuangzi and Mohism
An interview on debates over language and reasoning between the Mohists and the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi.
HPC 42. A Black and White World: the Zhuangzi on Shi-Fei Dogmatism
The Zhuangzi’s critique of dogmatic approaches to argumentation and governing the state.
HPC 41. To Speak or Not to Speak: Skepticism in the Zhuangzi
We introduce the second great classic of Warring States Daoism, the Zhuangzi, and ask whether it adopts a position of radical skepticism.
HPC 40. Antiheroes: Sunzi’s Art of War
Are the methods of warfare proposed in the famous Art of War an example of “applied Daoism”?
HPC 39. Robin Wang on Yin-Yang Thinking
An interview on the pervasive use of the yin-yang relational pair in classical Chinese thought generally, and in Daoism in particular.
HPC 38. Easy Does It: Non-Action in the Laozi
The concept of wuwei or “non-action”: does it mean that the perfect sage or political ruler simply never does anything?
HPC 37. She Stoops to Conquer: Femininity in the Laozi
How the Laozi (Daodejing) applies the lessons of complementarity to the contrast between male and female.
HPC 36. Fishing for Complements: Polarities in Daoism
The significance of the Laozi’s use of opposing pairs, which are treated as complementary rather as exclusive dichotomies.