Course Information
Course title
Seminar on Taoism 
Semester
109-1 
Designated for
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS  GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY  
Instructor
WIM DE-REU 
Curriculum Number
Phl7020 
Curriculum Identity Number
124 M0280 
Class
 
Credits
3.0 
Full/Half
Yr.
Half 
Required/
Elective
Required 
Time
Monday 3,4,5(10:20~13:10) 
Remarks
The upper limit of the number of students: 15. 
Ceiba Web Server
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1091Phl7020_ 
Course introduction video
 
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Course Syllabus
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Course Description

本課程分為《老子》和《莊子》二單元。上課以教師所挑選之題目和原文資料為討論對象;《老子》為宇宙論陳述和悖論,《莊子》為論證模式和人際互動。 

Course Objective
在大學部的基礎上使同學深入瞭解道家哲學問題,以提高同學獨立探索道家哲學之基本能力。 
Course Requirement
(一)、以積極的態度參與討論;(二)、輪流報告指定資料;(三)、與老師討論期末報告的方向 (第9週;課外安排);(四)、在課堂上對期末報告的題目作簡介 (預備報告);(五)、撰寫5000-7000字的期末報告。 
Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week)
 
Office Hours
Mon. 13:30~15:30 
Designated reading
Chiu, Wai Wai (2015). "Goblet Words and Indeterminacy: A Writing Style that Is Free of Commitment." Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 10, 2: 255-272.

De Reu, Wim (2006). “Right Words Seem Wrong: Neglected Paradoxes in Early Chinese Philosophical Texts.” Philosophy East and West 56, 2: 281-300.

De Reu, Wim (2017). “On Goblet Words: Coexistence and Writing in the Zhuangzi.” NTU Philosophical Review, 53: 75-108.

De Reu, Wim (2019). “The Unresponsive Fighting Cocks: Mastery and Human Interaction in the Zhuangzi.” Lai, Karyn and Chiu, Wai Wai (eds.). Skill and Mastery: Philosophical Stories from the Zhuangzi (183-200). London/New York: Rowman and Littlefield.

Huang, Yong (2010). "The Ethics of Difference in the Zhuangzi." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 78, 1: 65-99.

LaFargue, Michael (1992). The Tao of the Tao Te Ching: A Translation and Commentary. Albany: State University of New York Press, 189-216. (Hermeneutics: A Reasoned Approach to Interpreting the Tao Te Ching, 189-216)

Wagner, Rudolf (2000). The Craft of a Chinese Commentator: Wang Bi on the Laozi. Albany: State University
of New York Press. 53-113. (瓦格納。2009。《王弼《老子注》研究》。楊立華 譯。江蘇:江蘇人民出版社,47-110). 
References
陳鼓應。1999 。(修訂版)。《莊子今註今譯》。臺北:商務。
陳鼓應。2000 。(三次修訂版) 。《老子今註今譯及評介》。臺北:商務。
王博。2004。《庄子哲學》。北京:北京大學出版社。
劉笑敢。2005。老子 (修訂二版) 。台北:東大。

Hansen, Chad (1992). A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. (Chapters 6 and 8)

Ziporyn, Brook (2012). Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought; Prolegomena
to the Study of Li. Albany: State University of New York Press. (Chapter four) 
Grading
   
Progress
Week
Date
Topic
第1週
9/14  課程簡介 
第2週
9/21  鏈體風格 
第3週
9/28  老子:宇宙論陳述 chs. 39 (22) and 52 (59) 
第4週
10/05  老子:宇宙論陳述 chs. 35 and 42 
第5週
10/12  老子:宇宙論陳述 chs. 16 and 40 
第6週
10/19  老子:悖論 chs. 77 and 58 
第7週
10/26  老子:悖論 chs. 2, 10, 34, and 51 
第8週
11/02  老子:悖論 chs. 28, 41, 45 
第9週
11/09  (期中考試週) 
第10週
11/16  莊子:論證模式 
第11週
11/23  莊子:論證模式 
第12週
11/30  莊子:論證模式 
第13週
12/07  預備報告 
第14週
12/14  預備報告 
第15週
12/21  莊子:人際互動 
第16週
12/28  莊子:人際互動 
第17週
1/04  莊子:人際互動