SemesterSpring Semester, 2018
DepartmentSophomore Class of Department of Philosophy
Course NameIntercultural Philosophy
InstructorMARCHAL KAI
Credit3.0
Course TypeSelectively
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

 

































































































































































週次



Week



課程主題



Topic



課程內容與指定閱讀



Content and Reading Assignment



教學活動與作業



Teaching Activities and Homework



學習投入時間



Student workload expectation



課堂講授



In-class Hours



課程前後



Outside-of-class Hours



1



Introduction



Aristotle; Daodejing



 



3



2



2



Intercultural Understanding



Elmar Holenstein; Kwame Anthony Appiah



 



3



2



3



Moral Ambivalence



David Wong



 



3



2



4



Daoism (1)



Michael Puett; Daodejing



 



3



2



5



Daoism (2)



Michael Puett; Zhuangzi



 



3



2



6



Holiday



 



 



 



 



7



Daoism (3)



Zhuangzi



 



3



2



8



Confucianism(s)(1)



Puett; Analects



 



3



2



9



Mid-term



Mid-term Exam



 



3



2



10



Confucianism(s)(2)



Puett, Analects



 



3



2



11



Buddhism (1)



Mark Siderits



 



3



2



12



Buddhism (2)



Becker



 



3



2



13



Weakness of Will



Velleman



3



2



14



Comparison



R.A.H. King



 



3



2



15



On Anger



Flanagan; Kwong-loi Shun



 



3



2



16



Moral Intuitions



William Haines



 



3



2



17



Piecemeal Progress



Steve Angle



 



3



 



18



Paper Presentation



 



 



3



 



Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

TBA


Requirement/Grading

Individual performance (including homework, oral presentations, etc.): 30%;



Mid-term exam: 30%;



Paper: 40%;


Textbook & Reference

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. 2006. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.



 



Flanagan, Owen. 2016. The Geography of Morals. Varieties of Moral Possibility. Oxford: Oxford University Press.



 



Forster, Michael N. 1998. “On the Very Idea of Denying the Existence of Radically Different Conceptual Schemes“, Inquiry 41:2, pp. 133-185.



 



Garfield, Jay L. 2001. Empty Words: Buddhist Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.



 



Holenstein, Elmar. 2003. “A Dozen Rules of Thumb for Avoiding Intercultural Misunderstandings“, Forum for Intercultural Philosophy 4 (see: https://them.polylog.org/4/ahe-en.htm; last accessed: December 18, 2017).



 



King, R.A.H., Schilling, D. (eds.). 2011. How Should One Live? Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.



 



Ma, Lin, van Brakel, Jaap. 2016. Fundamentals of Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press.



 



May, Larry, Delston, Jill B. 2015. Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach (6th Edition). New York/Abingdon: Routledge.



 



Moody-Adams, Michele M. 1997. Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.



 



Sellmaier, Stephan. 2008. Über den moralisch angemessenen Umgang mit ethischem Dissens und moralischen Dilemmata. Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer.



 



Velleman, J. David. 2008. “The way of the wanton“, In: Catriona Mackenzie and Kim Atkins (eds.), Practical Identity and Narrative Agency. New York/Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 169-192.



 



Wong, David. 2009. Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism. New York: Oxford University Press.



 



Wong, David. 2014. “Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western“, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (see: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/comparphil-chiwes/; last accessed: December 18, 2017).


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