課程資訊
課程名稱
比較哲學:實踐
Comparative Philosophy: Practice 
開課學期
108-2 
授課對象
文學院  哲學研究所  
授課教師
柏嘯虎 
課號
Phl7562 
課程識別碼
124EM8020 
班次
 
學分
3.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期三8,9,10(15:30~18:20) 
上課地點
哲研討室二 
備註
本課程以英語授課。研究所:E領域。 大學部:(C)哲學專題群組。
總人數上限:15人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1082Phl7562_ 
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課程概述

比較哲學是兩種不同的哲學傳統?了獲得進步而交互作用。本課程的學生將會通過讀比較哲學典範文章以及自己寫論文來培養從事比較哲學的能力。本課程主要的?容有英文或翻譯成英文的中國和歐洲的哲學著作。廣泛的議題包括道德心理學、倫理學、形上學、知識論、認知科學、社會/政治哲學等。寫論文時,學生專注於自選的範圍。 

課程目標
本課程的目標為培養學生研究跨文化比較哲學之能力。藉由將中國古代哲學思想應用在當代哲學議題上,學生將有能力以此評估這些中國傳統的核心概念。 
課程要求
Reading
10 brief written assignments
Two term papers 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
Required Texts
1. Author: Bruya, Brian
Title: The Philosophical Challenge from China (“PCC” below)
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262028431
2. Coursepack provided by the professor (“CP” below)
3. Chinese classics available online (“CCO” below)
 
參考書目
Required Texts
1. Author: Bruya, Brian
Title: The Philosophical Challenge from China (“PCC” below)
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262028431
2. Coursepack provided by the professor (“CP” below)
3. Chinese classics available online (“CCO” below)
 
評量方式
(僅供參考)
 
No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
2 – 3,000 word term paper 
40% 
 
2. 
2 – 3,000 word term paper 
40% 
 
3. 
daily assignments  
20% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
3/04  Welcome!
Read in class: Bruya, “Introduction: Chinese Philosophy as a Resource for Problems in Contemporary Philosophy”
 
第2週
3/11  Readings:
• CP: Susan Wolf, “Moral Saints”
• CP: Axelrod and Dion, “The Further Evolution of Cooperation”
• PCC: Hagop Sarkissian, “When You Think It’s Bad, It’s Worse than You Think”
• CCO: Selections from Analects of Confucius
 
第3週
3/18  Readings:
• CP: David Wong, “Reasons and Analogical Reasoning in Mencius”
• PCC: David Wong, “Growing Virtue: The Theory and Science of Developing Compassion from a Mencian Perspective”
• CCO: Selections from Mencius
 
第4週
3/25  Readings:
• CP: Ann A. Pang-White, “Reconstructing Modern Ethics: Confucian Care Ethics”
• PCC: Bongrae Seok, “Proto-Empathy and Nociceptive Mirror Emotion: Mencius’ Embodied Moral Psychology”
• CCO: Selections from Mencius
 
第5週
4/01  Readings:
• CP: John Rawls, “The Law of Peoples”
• CP: Tongdong Bai, “The Price of Serving Meat: On Confucius’ and Mencius’ Views of Human and Animal Rights”
• PCC: Tongdong Bai, “A Criticism of Later Rawls and a Defense of a Decent (Confucian) People
• COO: Selections from Analects of Confucius and Mencius
 
第6週
4/08  Readings:
• CP: Peter Singer, “Equality and Its Implications”
• PCC: Donald J. Munro, “Unequal Human Worth”
• CCO: Sections from Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi
 
第7週
4/15  HOLIDAY兒童節暨民族掃墓節(併同週休二日) 
第8週
4/22  DISCUSS PAPER TOPICS 
第9週
4/29  Readings:
• CP: David Elstein, “Mou Zongsan’s New Confucian Democracy”
• PCC: Stephen C. Angle, “Virtue Ethics, the Rule of Law, and the Need for Self-Restriction”
 
第10週
5/06  Readings:
• CP: Elizabeth Tefler, “Self-Respect”
• CP: Michael Ridge, “Agent-Neutral Consequentialism from the Inside-out: Concern for Integrity without Self-indulgence”
• PCC: Kwong-loi Shun, “Ethical Self-Commitment and Ethical Self-Indulgence”
 
第11週
5/13  PAPER #1 DUE, DISCUSS PAPER SUMMARIES 
第12週
5/20  Readings
• CP: “Exodus,” Bible
• PCC: Owen Flanagan and Steven Geisz, “Confucian Moral Sources”
• CCO: Xunzi, “On Nature,” “On Ritual”
 
第13週
5/27  Readings
• CP: C. Daniel Batson, “Prosocial Motivation”
• PCC: Philip J. Ivanhoe, “Senses and Values of Oneness”
• CCO: Zhang Zai, “Western Inscription”; Wang Yangming, Chuan Xi Lu, selections
 
第14週
6/03  Readings
• CP: Deguchi, Garfield, and Priest, “The Way of the Dialetheist: Contradictions in Buddhism”
• PCC: Brook Ziporyn, “What Does the Law of Non-Contradiction Tell Us, If Anything? Paradox, Parameterization, and Truth in Tiantai Buddhism”
• CCO: Zhuangzi, selections; Zhiyi, Miao fa lianhuajing xuan yi, selections
 
第15週
6/10  DISCUSS PAPER TOPICS 
第16週
6/17  Readings
• CP: Gilbert Ryle, “Knowing How and Knowing That”
• PCC: Stephen Hetherington and Karyn Lai, “Knowing-How and Knowing-To”
• CCO: The Annals of Lü Buwei, selections
 
第17週
6/24  Readings
• CP: Quine, “Naturalism; Or, Living Within One’s Means”
• PCC: Bo Mou, “Quine’s Naturalized Epistemology and Zhuangzi’s Daoist Naturalism: How Their Constructive Engagement Is Possible”
• CCO: Zhuangzi, selections; Dao De Jing, selections
 
第18週
6/31  Readings
• CP: Harry Frankfurt, “The Problem of Action”
• CP: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura, “Effortless Attention in Everyday Life”
• PCC: Brian Bruya, “Action without Agency and Natural Human Action: Resolving a Double Paradox”
• CCO: Zhuangzi, selections