TTC Video – World Philosophy

This set of twenty-four lectures introduces the student to some of the central views in the world’s diverse philosophical traditions. Using the orientation of Western thought as a departure, the course considers some of the alternative worldviews that developed in Africa, the Americas, India, China, and Japan.

Course Lecture Titles:
1. Beginnings
2. Western metaphysics
3. Soul and Body
4. The Good Life and the Role of Reason
5. Western and African Thought Compared
6. Traditional Beliefs and Philosophy
7. American Indian Thinking
8. Mesoamerican Thought
9. Ethics and Social Thought in Latin America
10. Indian Though on Supreme Reality
11. The Dualism of the Samkhya School
12. Vedic Thought and Monism
13. The Bhagavad Gita
14. The Buddha’s Teachings
15. Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism
16. Nagarjuna’s Interpretation of Buddhism
17. The Chinese Conception of Reality
18. Confucius
19. Confucian Virtue
20. Confucian Schools – Mencius and Xunzi
21. The Daoist Response to Confucianism
22. Daoism and Early Buddhism in China
23. Buddhism in China and Japan
24. Synthesis