Secure Great Minds Of The Eastern Intellectual Tradition Translated By Grant Hardy Readable In Paperback

book took me forever to get through, but it was well worth the effort, It is a systematic march through the historical, political, and philosophical developments of the ancient societies of great Asian societies, particularly in India, China, Japan, and the pacific.
There is extensive treatment on religion and its effect on cultural development, This is not a work that you will want to skim or listen to on,speed. The author/lecturer is evidently very deep in the subject and added tremendously to the material, As a student of humanities, I thought I had a fair idea about the eastern intellectual traditions.
Atleast about the Indian subcontinent, However, I learned a great deal about which I had no idea previously not only about the Indian subcontinent but also about China, Japan, Korea, Tibet and so on.
Professor Hardy has a sense of humor and pushes readers to develop an empathetic understanding about cultures that might be new to them.
This is a refresher course for those interested to delve deeper in the subject and worth every moment spent.
It's a lot of information but it was eye opening to learn the origin about the thought in the eastern world This lecturer was fantastic and while all of the "thinkers" names probably won't stick I have definitely gained some insight from this series.
After all the chores of the everyday are taken care of and youve had a sufficient amount of relaxation to suffice, what remains is the discovery of what and how you know what you know in order to further discover the world around you, what and how to do good, and lastly, what is deserving of your time.
Eastern thought has wrestled with those discoveries and the professor lays out how they thought about regarding those discoveries.
The professor does muddle it a little bit with confounding those with the question why is there evil and a presumption that truth comes from outside of ourselves through an outsourcing of sorts.
as for the first muddle, Ill just quote Tom Joad from the Grapes of Wrath: there aint no virtues, there aint no sin evil, theres just people doing things, and as for the second muddle, if it pleases you, go ahead and outsource your truths and get your certainty, as for me Ill keep searching by listening to Great Courses like this one and reading those who I deem worthy of my time.


I listened to this in order to learn a bit about Eastern thought, but ended up learning

a lot more about what I thought I understood about Western thinkers.
Almost always it was possible to relate what I was learning to what I already knew from previous Western thinkers.


The more one learns about a tradition alien to ones own, the more one realizes there is more left unlearned and worthy of ones consideration and what ones own tradition was trying to say but in slightly different ways.


Theres no easy way to understand another system of thought, The lecture does it in bite size pieces and time periods and countries and religions all the time moving around while covering a giant swath of ground.
Dont test me on the names or the dates I would fail, but overall, this is a necessary class in order for me to understand my own Western tradition just a little bit better and open my eyes to how much I still need to learn about the world before its too late.
Excellent course. Presumably you can answer the following if you study the course well I will have to circle back to the course

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What is the nature of reality according to
A, Brahman
B. Dependent Origination
C. The Dao

. What is the self according to:
A, Hinduism
B. Confucianism
C. HinduVedanta

. How are we connected to the natural world in the ideas of:
A, Samsara
B. 理
C. 氣
D. Buddha nature

. Is there a shared human nature according to:
A, 孟子
B. 荀況

. What is the potential for unity with God according to:
A, Ahmad Sirhindi Sufi
B, Shankara Advaita Vedanta
C, Madhvacharya Hindu

. How do we know what we know according to:
A, 諸子百家 essay on this
B, Buddhist meditation
C. Yogic introspection of Upanishads
D, Patañjalis Yoga
E, Zens wordless insight

, What is the relationship of the individual to their community according to:
A, Confusion Filial Piety
B, Bhagavad Gita Karma Yoga
C, Jain monasticism
B. Buddhist monasticism

. What is the role of religion in public life according to Ashoka

, What is the role of government according to:
A, 孔子 vs. 韓非
B. Kauṭilya

. What are womens role in society according to:
A, 班昭
B. Murasaki Shikibu
C. Sei Shōnagon
D, Fukuzawa Yukichi
E. 康有為
F. 毛泽东

. How open should society be to foreign influences according to:
A, 玄奘
B. Prince Shōtoku
C, Rabindranath Tagore

. Why do people suffer according to:
A, Zoroastrianism
B. Buddhism
C. Daoism

. What is the solution to suffering according to:
A, Jainism
B. Hinduism
C. 墨子 highly recommended. fair, impartial, sweeping, and even manages a narrative, prof hardy's enthusiasm for the material holds it all together, Western philosophy is a vast intellectual tradition, the product of thousands of years of revolutionary thought built up by a rich collection of brilliant minds.
When most of us study philosophy, we're focusing only on the Western intellectual tradition brought about by people such as Aristotle, Descartes, and Nietzsche.
But to understand the Western intellectual tradition is to only get half of the story.


Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition is an epic, comprehensive survey of the East's most influential philosophers and thinkers.
Inlectures, awardwinning Professor Grant Hardy of the University of North Carolina at Asheville introduces you to the men and women responsible for molding Asian philosophy and for giving birth to a wide variety of spiritual and ideological systems, including Hinduism, Daoism, Confucianism, Sufism, and Buddhism.
By focusing on these key thinkers in their historical contexts, you'll witness the development of these rich traditions as they shaped and defined Eastern cultures through the rise and fall of empires, the friendly and hostile encounters with each other and with the Western world, and the rapid advancements of the modern age.
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