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History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

by Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers

Peter Adamson teams up with Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers, and Karyn Lai to represent the philosophical traditions of ancient India, Africa and the African diaspora, and classical China. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.

100 episodes

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HPC 49. Hans-Georg Moeller on the Zhuangzi

28:30 Mar 15, 2026

HPC 48. Off the Beaten Path: Wandering in the Zhuangzi

16:24 Mar 1, 2026

HPC 47. Live and Let Die: the Zhuangzi on Death

18:21 Feb 15, 2026

HPC 46. Turning the Tables: Confucius in the Zhuangzi

18:23 Feb 1, 2026

HPC 45. Practice Makes Perfect: Skill Stories in the Zhuangzi

20:43 Jan 18, 2026

HPC 44. Like a Fish Out of Water: Animal Stories in the Zhuangzi

18:38 Jan 4, 2026

HPC 43. Chiu Wai-Wai on the Zhuangzi and Mohism

32:40 Dec 21, 2025

HPC 42. A Black and White World: the Zhuangzi on Shi-Fei Dogmatism

18:56 Dec 7, 2025

HPC 41. To Speak or Not to Speak: Skepticism in the Zhuangzi

23:26 Nov 23, 2025

HPC 40. Antiheroes: Sunzi’s Art of War

18:42 Nov 9, 2025

HPC 39. Robin Wang on Yin-Yang Thinking

42:27 Oct 26, 2025

HPC 38. Easy Does It: Non-Action in the Laozi

23:38 Oct 12, 2025

HPC 37. She Stoops to Conquer: Femininity in the Laozi

16:45 Sep 28, 2025

HPC 36. Fishing for Complements: Polarities in Daoism

17:48 Sep 14, 2025

HPC 35. Way Better than Greenwashing: Daoism on Nature

21:30 Jul 27, 2025

HPC 34. You Don’t Say! the Dao That Cannot Be Told

23:31 Jul 13, 2025

HPC 33. Let Us Count the Ways: What is Daoism?

18:14 Jun 29, 2025

HPC 32. Chris Fraser on Mohism

35:15 Jun 15, 2025

HPC 31. Push and Pull: Mohist Dialectic

22:48 Jun 1, 2025

HPC 30. Horse of a Different Color: the Mohists on Language and Knowledge

22:40 May 18, 2025

HPC 29. Ghost Writers: the Mohists on Religion

18:31 May 4, 2025

HPC 28. Ting Mien Lee on Mohism and Confucianism

29:55 Apr 20, 2025

HPC 27. Give Peace a Chance: the Mohists on War and Politics

19:13 Apr 6, 2025

HPC 26. Culture Wars: Mohist and Confucian Debates

18:38 Mar 23, 2025

HPC 25. Benefit, Then Stop: Mohism and Impartial Care

20:34 Mar 9, 2025

HPC 24. Measuring Up: Mohist philosophy

20:19 Feb 23, 2025

HPC 23. Amy Olberding on Confucian Ethics

35:24 Feb 9, 2025

HPC 22. Inside Job: Women in Confucianism

18:18 Jan 26, 2025

HPC 21. Sor-Hoon Tan on Confucian Democracy

38:34 Jan 12, 2025

HPC 20. Heaven Can Wait: Ritual and Religion in Confucianism

19:38 Dec 29, 2024

HPC 19. The Kingly Way: Confucian Political Philosophy

20:30 Dec 15, 2024

HPC 18. Erica Brindley on Music and the Cosmos in Confucianism

29:42 Dec 1, 2024

HPC 17. Knowing Me, Knowing You: Confucian Epistemology

18:24 Nov 17, 2024

HPC 16. To Become or Not to Become: the Confucians on Our Moral Natures

24:01 Nov 3, 2024

HPC 15. Flexing Your Moral Muscles: Xunzi on Moral Cultivation

22:00 Oct 20, 2024

HPC 14. Every Man for Himself: Virtue and the Body

21:18 Oct 6, 2024

HPC 13. The Trembling Ox: Mengzi and the Compassionate Heart

22:29 Sep 22, 2024

HPC 12. Gentlemen’s Agreement: Confucian Virtue Ethics

26:18 Sep 8, 2024

HPC 11. Mark Csikszentmihalyi on Early Confucianism

32:16 Jul 28, 2024

HPC 10. We’re a Pack Animal: Individual and Society in Confucianism

20:57 Jul 14, 2024

HPC 09. Family Values: Confucian Role Ethics

25:55 Jun 30, 2024

HPC 08. Confucius Says: Reading the Analects

25:05 Jun 16, 2024

HPC 07. Uncrowned King: Kongzi (Confucius) and the Analects

24:25 Jun 2, 2024

HPC 06. Franklin Perkins on Excavated Texts

35:43 May 19, 2024

HPC 05. Going Paperless: Ancient Chinese Texts

17:24 May 5, 2024

HPC 04. Open Season: the Historical Context

24:06 Apr 21, 2024

HPC 03. Karyn Lai on Classical Chinese Philosophy

36:16 Apr 7, 2024

HPC 02. The Only Constant: Change and the "Yi Jing"

26:29 Mar 24, 2024

HPC 01. Journey of a Thousand Li: Introduction to Chinese Philosophy

20:16 Mar 10, 2024

HAP 142 - Final Chat with Chike Jeffers

51:12 Feb 25, 2024