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Thought Itself

The History of Philosophy, Logic and the Mind with Eric Gerlach

  • Courses
    • Intro – Phil 1
    • Logic – Phil 10
    • Ethics – Phil 31A
    • Religion – Hum 40
    • Politics – Phil 2
    • Asia – Phil 37
    • Buddha – Phil 16
    • Greece – Phil 20A
    • Europe – Phil 20B
  • Logic
    • Why Talk At All?
    • Talk & Think
    • India & Gautama
    • Greece & Aristotle
    • China & Hui Shi
    • Islam & Avicenna
    • Europe & Aquinas
    • Kant & Hegel
    • Poe & Dupin
    • Mill & Boole
    • Carroll & Alice
      • Alice & Aristotle
      • Wonderland
      • The Looking Glass
      • The Snark Hunt
    • Venn & Peano
    • Frege & Russell
    • Wittgenstein
    • Fallacies & Puzzles
  • Ethics
    • Ethics? Where?!?
    • Egypt & Babylon
    • Hindus & Jains
    • Buddha
    • Heraclitus
    • Aristotle
    • Epicurus & Stoics
    • Confucius
    • Mozi & Xunzi
    • Daoism
    • Kant
    • Mill
    • Nietzsche
    • Wittgenstein
    • Fanon, hooks & Said
  • Politics
    • Human Politics
    • Mencius & Mozi
    • Plato’s Republic
    • Aristotle’s Politics
    • Machiavelli
    • Hobbes
    • Locke
    • Rousseau
    • Mill
    • Thoreau
    • Socialism
    • Communism
    • Hegel & Marcuse
    • Anarchism
    • Fascism
    • Postcolonialism
    • Feminism
  • Religion
    • Zoroastrianism
    • Judaism
      • Abraham
    • Christianity
    • Islam
    • Neo-Platonism
      • Augustine
      • Dionysius
      • Eriugena
      • Francis
      • Aquinas
      • Ockham
      • Cusanus
      • Ficino
    • Protestantism
    • New Religions
  • Egypt
    • Hardjedef
    • Ptahhotep
    • Khun-Anup
    • Amenemopet
    • Ani the Scribe
    • Marikare
  • Babylon
    • Pessimism
    • Theodicy
  • India
    • Hinduism
      • The Three Paths
      • The Vedas
      • The Upanishads
      • The Epics
      • Vedanta
      • The Strivers
    • Kanada & Atoms
    • Gautama & Logic
      • Nyaya Debate
      • 4 Sources of Knowledge
      • 3 Ways of Words
      • Forms of Proof
      • Fallacies
    • The Charvakas
    • The Jains
      • The Tirthankaras
      • 3 Points of View
      • Mind Over Matter
      • The Leaky Boat
      • Nonviolence
      • The Whiteclad & Skyclad
    • Buddha
      • Life & Desire
      • The Middle Way
      • The Monkey Mind
      • Codependent Arising
      • The Dhammapada
      • The Mid-Length Discourses
      • The Long Discourses
      • Buddhism in India
      • Buddhism in Tibet
  • Greece
    • Poets & Epics
    • The Pre-Socratics
      • Pythagoras
      • Xenophanes
      • Heraclitus
      • Parmenides & Zeno
      • Anaxagoras
      • Empedocles
      • Democritus
    • Socrates
    • Diogenes
    • Plato
      • The Apology
      • The Crito
      • The Meno
      • The Symposium
      • The Republic
      • The Timaeus
      • The Parmenides
      • The Theaetetus
    • Aristotle
      • Metaphysics
      • On The Soul
      • Logic
      • Ethics
      • Politics
    • Skepticism
      • Pyrrho
      • Aenesidemus
      • Sextus Empiricus
    • Epicurus
    • Stoicism
      • Zeno of Citium
      • Chrysippus
      • Epictetus
      • Marcus Aurelius
  • China
    • The Yi Jing
    • Confucianism
      • Confucius
      • The Mean
      • Great Learning
      • Mencius
      • Xunzi
    • Daoism
      • Yin & Yang
      • Bamboo Laozi
      • Laozi
      • Zhuangzi
      • Liezi
    • Buddhism & Zen
      • Buddha in China
      • Chan (Zen)
      • Bodhidharma
      • Huineng
      • Mazu
      • Linji (Rinzai)
      • Zhaozhou (Joshu)
      • Blue Cliff Record
      • The Gateless Gate
      • Dahui
      • Korea
      • Vietnam
    • Sunzi
    • School of Names
      • Hui Shi
      • Gongsun Long
    • Mozi
  • Japan
    • Buddhism in Japan
    • Hakuin
    • Dogen
    • Musashi
    • Zen Stories
  • Islam
    • Al Kindi
    • Al Farabi
    • Avicenna
    • Al Ghazali
    • Averroes
  • Germania
    • Spinoza
    • Leibniz
    • Kant
    • Hegel
    • Marx
    • Schopenhauer
    • Kierkegaard
    • Nietzsche
    • Heidegger
    • Wittgenstein
    • Marcuse
  • France
    • Rousseau
    • Descartes
    • Saint-Simon
    • Bataille
    • Sartre
    • Foucault
    • Fanon
    • Modern Art
    • Post-Modernism
  • Britannia
    • Ockham
    • Hobbes
    • Locke
    • Hume
    • Berkeley
    • Mill
    • Russell
  • Americas
    • Mayans
    • Ambrose Bierce
    • Edgar Allan Poe
      • Philosophy of Furniture
      • Rue Morgue Murders
      • Marie Roget
      • Purloined Letter
    • Thoreau
    • Pragmatism
      • Peirce
      • William James
      • John Dewey
      • Richard Rorty
      • Cornel West
    • Groucho Marx
  • Me

A Turtle, A Snake, A Staff & A Stand: The Blue Cliff Record Koans & Zen

Buddhist Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Zen
December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 ericgerlach79Leave a comment

Your Mother Is Ugly & Wide Open Spaces: Joshu, Zen & The Depth Of The Deep

Buddhist Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Zen
December 20, 2020December 20, 2020 ericgerlach79Leave a comment

Splitting Cats From Dogs With An Ox: Joshu, Zen & Koan Cases

Buddhist Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Zen
December 19, 2020 ericgerlach792 Comments

The Hole Of Each Case: Linji, Zen & Koan Practice

Buddhist Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Zen
December 18, 2020 ericgerlach792 Comments

Beasts & Demons, Thieves & Shouts: Linji & Zen

Buddhist Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Zen
December 18, 2020 ericgerlach79Leave a comment

Belly & Beast, Tiger & Rug

Philosophy
December 17, 2020December 17, 2020 ericgerlach79Leave a comment

The True Sage Of No Rank & The Holes In Your Face: Linji, Daoism & Zen

Buddhist Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Daoist Philosophy, Zen
December 17, 2020 ericgerlach79Leave a comment

Kill The Buddha & Slap Your Master: Linji & Zen Buddhism

Philosophy
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All Your Jerks & Coworkers: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius & Later Roman Stoicism

Greek Philosophy, stoicism
December 11, 2020 ericgerlach79Leave a comment

Fate, A Firm Grasp & The Logical Captain: Zeno, Chrysippus & Early Greek Stoicism

Greek Philosophy
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  • Courses
    • Intro – Phil 1
    • Logic – Phil 10
    • Ethics – Phil 31A
    • Religion – Hum 40
    • Politics – Phil 2
    • Asia – Phil 37
    • Buddha – Phil 16
    • Greece – Phil 20A
    • Europe – Phil 20B
  • Logic
    • Why Talk At All?
    • Talk & Think
    • India & Gautama
    • Greece & Aristotle
    • China & Hui Shi
    • Islam & Avicenna
    • Europe & Aquinas
    • Kant & Hegel
    • Poe & Dupin
    • Mill & Boole
    • Carroll & Alice
      • Alice & Aristotle
      • Wonderland
      • The Looking Glass
      • The Snark Hunt
    • Venn & Peano
    • Frege & Russell
    • Wittgenstein
    • Fallacies & Puzzles
  • Ethics
    • Ethics? Where?!?
    • Egypt & Babylon
    • Hindus & Jains
    • Buddha
    • Heraclitus
    • Aristotle
    • Epicurus & Stoics
    • Confucius
    • Mozi & Xunzi
    • Daoism
    • Kant
    • Mill
    • Nietzsche
    • Wittgenstein
    • Fanon, hooks & Said
  • Politics
    • Human Politics
    • Mencius & Mozi
    • Plato’s Republic
    • Aristotle’s Politics
    • Machiavelli
    • Hobbes
    • Locke
    • Rousseau
    • Mill
    • Thoreau
    • Socialism
    • Communism
    • Hegel & Marcuse
    • Anarchism
    • Fascism
    • Postcolonialism
    • Feminism
  • Religion
    • Zoroastrianism
    • Judaism
      • Abraham
    • Christianity
    • Islam
    • Neo-Platonism
      • Augustine
      • Dionysius
      • Eriugena
      • Francis
      • Aquinas
      • Ockham
      • Cusanus
      • Ficino
    • Protestantism
    • New Religions
  • Egypt
    • Hardjedef
    • Ptahhotep
    • Khun-Anup
    • Amenemopet
    • Ani the Scribe
    • Marikare
  • Babylon
    • Pessimism
    • Theodicy
  • India
    • Hinduism
      • The Three Paths
      • The Vedas
      • The Upanishads
      • The Epics
      • Vedanta
      • The Strivers
    • Kanada & Atoms
    • Gautama & Logic
      • Nyaya Debate
      • 4 Sources of Knowledge
      • 3 Ways of Words
      • Forms of Proof
      • Fallacies
    • The Charvakas
    • The Jains
      • The Tirthankaras
      • 3 Points of View
      • Mind Over Matter
      • The Leaky Boat
      • Nonviolence
      • The Whiteclad & Skyclad
    • Buddha
      • Life & Desire
      • The Middle Way
      • The Monkey Mind
      • Codependent Arising
      • The Dhammapada
      • The Mid-Length Discourses
      • The Long Discourses
      • Buddhism in India
      • Buddhism in Tibet
  • Greece
    • Poets & Epics
    • The Pre-Socratics
      • Pythagoras
      • Xenophanes
      • Heraclitus
      • Parmenides & Zeno
      • Anaxagoras
      • Empedocles
      • Democritus
    • Socrates
    • Diogenes
    • Plato
      • The Apology
      • The Crito
      • The Meno
      • The Symposium
      • The Republic
      • The Timaeus
      • The Parmenides
      • The Theaetetus
    • Aristotle
      • Metaphysics
      • On The Soul
      • Logic
      • Ethics
      • Politics
    • Skepticism
      • Pyrrho
      • Aenesidemus
      • Sextus Empiricus
    • Epicurus
    • Stoicism
      • Zeno of Citium
      • Chrysippus
      • Epictetus
      • Marcus Aurelius
  • China
    • The Yi Jing
    • Confucianism
      • Confucius
      • The Mean
      • Great Learning
      • Mencius
      • Xunzi
    • Daoism
      • Yin & Yang
      • Bamboo Laozi
      • Laozi
      • Zhuangzi
      • Liezi
    • Buddhism & Zen
      • Buddha in China
      • Chan (Zen)
      • Bodhidharma
      • Huineng
      • Mazu
      • Linji (Rinzai)
      • Zhaozhou (Joshu)
      • Blue Cliff Record
      • The Gateless Gate
      • Dahui
      • Korea
      • Vietnam
    • Sunzi
    • School of Names
      • Hui Shi
      • Gongsun Long
    • Mozi
  • Japan
    • Buddhism in Japan
    • Hakuin
    • Dogen
    • Musashi
    • Zen Stories
  • Islam
    • Al Kindi
    • Al Farabi
    • Avicenna
    • Al Ghazali
    • Averroes
  • Germania
    • Spinoza
    • Leibniz
    • Kant
    • Hegel
    • Marx
    • Schopenhauer
    • Kierkegaard
    • Nietzsche
    • Heidegger
    • Wittgenstein
    • Marcuse
  • France
    • Rousseau
    • Descartes
    • Saint-Simon
    • Bataille
    • Sartre
    • Foucault
    • Fanon
    • Modern Art
    • Post-Modernism
  • Britannia
    • Ockham
    • Hobbes
    • Locke
    • Hume
    • Berkeley
    • Mill
    • Russell
  • Americas
    • Mayans
    • Ambrose Bierce
    • Edgar Allan Poe
      • Philosophy of Furniture
      • Rue Morgue Murders
      • Marie Roget
      • Purloined Letter
    • Thoreau
    • Pragmatism
      • Peirce
      • William James
      • John Dewey
      • Richard Rorty
      • Cornel West
    • Groucho Marx
  • Me
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