HISTORY OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIONS 1

This is one of the mandatory courses within the China/Korea curricula of the Corso di Laurea on "Lingue, Culture e Società dell'Asia e dell'Africa Mediterranea"

1. Knowledge and understanding
a) Basic notions on the main trends within the history of Chinese thought, from its origin to the 4th century AD
b) To know and to understand the basic values of Chinese thought throughout its historical development
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
a) Knowing how to identify and contextualise thinkers, currents of thought, values in a wide historical-cultural dimension
b) to prove a general understanding of the philosophical debates and the religious practices; to draw relationships and make comparison among thinkers, currents of thought and religious-philosophical values
c) to know how to describe the contents of what has been studied during the course, using the appropriate terminology and the main methodological tools

The course has no specific prerequisites

Critical analysis and historical contextualization related to the main trends of thought, to the te and their authors, from the origins until the IV century AD

Compulsory texts on the history of Chinese thought:
Cheng, Anne, Storia del pensiero cinese, Torino, Einaudi, 2000, vol. I.
Andreini, Attilio e Scarpari, Maurizio, Il daoismo, il Mulino, Bologna, 2007 (fino a p. 95).
Scarpari, Maurizio, Il confucianesimo. I fondamenti e i testi, Einaudi, Torino, 2010.
Lippiello, Tiziana, "Pensiero e religione in epoca Zhou", in Lippiello, T. e Scarpari, M. (a cura di), La Cina. Dall'età del bronzo all'impero Han, Torino, Einaudi, vol. 1.2, 2013 (pp. 573-632).

Recommended texts on the history of Chinese thought:
Lippiello, Tiziana, Il confucianesimo, il Mulino, Bologna, 2009.


Students must also read at least two among the following texts:
Andreini, Attilio (a cura di), Laozi. Daodejing, Il Canone della Via e della Virtù, Einaudi, Torino, 2018.
Attilio Andreini, Micol Biondi (a cura di), Sun tzu. L'arte della guerra, Einaudi, Torino, 2011.
Cadonna, Alfredo (a cura di), Liezi. La scrittura reale del vuoto abissale e della potenza suprema, Einaudi, Torino, 2008.
Fracasso, Riccardo, Sun Tzu: L'arte della guerra , Roma, Newton Compton, 1994.
L. Kia-hway (a cura di), Zhuang-zi (Chuang-tzu), Adelphi, Milano, 1992.
Lippiello, Tiziana (a cura di), Confucio. Dialoghi, Torino, Einaudi, 2003.
Lippiello, Tiziana (a cura di), La costante pratica del giusto mezzo. Zhongyong, Marsilio, Venezia, 2010.
Scarpari, Maurizio, Mencio e l'arte di governo, Marsilio, Venezia, 2013.


Supplementary material will be added during the course and made available on the MOODLE platform

The exam will consist on a written-exam, it will last one hour and it will consist of four open questions related to the main topics discussed during the course.

Ex cathedra: during the course, students will be guided through the analysis of the main philosophical trends and the most representative texts of speculative and religious traditions in China up to the 4th century AD

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