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Thought Itself

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

Author: ericgerlach79

Gerlach is German and rhymes with bear-lock. I was born and raised in the Haight Ashbury of San Francisco, moved to Berkeley for college and grad school, with an MA in History of Religion from the Graduate Theological Union of Berkeley, and now teach Philosophy and the history of human thought at Berkeley City College. I have taught Intro Philosophy, Ethics, Logic, Asian Philosophy, Greek Philosophy, Modern European Philosophy and Social & Political Philosophy there for the past several years, and it has been a joy.

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

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

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

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

Buddhist Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Zen
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Beasts & Demons, Thieves & Shouts: Linji & Zen

Buddhist Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Zen
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Belly & Beast, Tiger & Rug

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

Buddhist Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Daoist Philosophy, Zen
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Kill The Buddha & Slap Your Master: Linji & Zen Buddhism

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

Greek Philosophy, stoicism
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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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