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  • Courses
    • Intro – Phil 1
    • Logic – Phil 10
      • 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
      • Venn & Peano
      • Frege & Russell
      • Wittgenstein
      • Fallacies & Puzzles
      • Analytic & Continental
    • Ethics – Phil 31A
      • Ethics? Where?!?
      • Egypt & Babylon
      • Hindus & Jains
      • Buddha
      • Heraclitus
      • Aristotle
      • Epicurus & Stoics
      • Confucius
      • Mozi & Xunzi
      • Daoism
      • Kant
      • Mill
      • Nietzsche
      • Wittgenstein
      • Fanon, hooks & Said
    • Politics – Phil 2
      • Human Politics
      • Mencius & Mozi
      • Plato’s Republic
      • Aristotle’s Politics
      • Machiavelli
      • Hobbes
      • Locke
      • Rousseau
      • Mill
      • Thoreau
      • Socialism
      • Communism
      • Hegel & Marcuse
      • Anarchism
      • Fascism
      • Postcolonialism
      • Feminism
    • Asia – Phil 37
    • Buddha – Phil 16
    • Greece – Phil 20A
    • Europe – Phil 20B
    • Religion – Hum 40
      • Islam
      • Neo-Platonism
        • Augustine
        • Dionysius
        • Eriugena
        • Francis
        • Aquinas
        • Ockham
        • Cusanus
        • Ficino
      • Protestantism
      • New Religions
  • Americas
    • The Mayans & Aztecs
    • Edgar Allan Poe
      • Philosophy of Furniture
      • Rue Morgue Murders
      • Marie Roget
      • Purloined Letter
    • Henry David Thoreau
    • Comedy & Cynicism
      • Ambrose Bierce
      • Groucho Marx
    • Pragmatism
      • Charles Sanders Peirce
      • William James
      • John Dewey
      • Richard Rorty
      • Cornel West
  • West
    • Britannia
      • William Of Ockham
      • Thomas Hobbes
      • John Locke
      • David Hume
      • George Berkeley
      • John Stuart Mill
      • Bertrand Russell
    • France
      • Rene Descartes
      • Politics
        • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
        • Henri de Saint-Simon
      • Surrealism
        • George Bataille
        • Dada & Modern Art
      • Existentialism
        • Jean-Paul Sartre
        • Franz Fanon
      • Structuralism
        • Jean-Claude Levi-Strauss
        • Jacques Lacan
        • Roland Barthes
        • Michel Foucault
      • Postmodernism
        • Jean-Francois Lyotard
        • Gilles Deleuze
        • Jean Baudrillard
        • Donna Haraway
        • Jacques Derrida
    • Germania
      • Rationalism
        • Baruch Spinoza
        • Gottfried Leibniz
        • Immanuel Kant
      • Phenomenology
        • Johann Fichte
        • Friedrich Schelling
        • Georg Hegel
      • Politics
        • Karl Marx & Communism
        • Marcuse & The New Left
      • Pessimism
        • Arthur Schopenhauer
        • Soren Kierkegaard
        • Friedrich Nietzsche
        • Martin Heidegger
      • Ludwig Wittgenstein
    • 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
  • Mid
    • Egypt
      • Hardjedef
      • Ptahhotep
      • Khun-Anup
      • Amenemopet
      • Ani the Scribe
      • Marikare
    • Babylon
      • Pessimism
      • Theodicy
    • Zoroastrianism
    • Judaism
    • Christianity
    • Islam
      • Al Kindi
      • Al Farabi
      • Avicenna
      • Al Ghazali
      • Averroes
  • East
    • 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
      • Jainism
        • The Tirthankaras
        • 3 Points of View
        • Mind Over Matter
        • The Leaky Boat
        • Nonviolence
        • The Whiteclad & Skyclad
      • Buddhism
        • Life & Desire
        • The Middle Way
        • The Monkey Mind
        • Codependent Arising
        • The Dhammapada
        • The Mid-Length Discourses
        • The Long Discourses
        • Ashoka
    • Tibet
    • 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
      • Sunzi & The Art Of War
      • School of Names
        • Hui Shi
        • Gongsun Long
      • Moism
    • Vietnam
    • Korea
    • Japan
      • Buddhism in Japan
      • Hakuin
      • Dogen
      • Musashi
      • Zen Stories
  • Videos
    • Alice & Aristotle
    • Poe The Detective
    • India
    • Plato’s Dialogues
    • Confucius
    • Daoism
    • Zen
    • Phenomenology
    • Existentialism
    • Postmodernism
  • Me

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  • Courses
    • Intro – Phil 1
    • Logic – Phil 10
      • 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
      • Venn & Peano
      • Frege & Russell
      • Wittgenstein
      • Fallacies & Puzzles
      • Analytic & Continental
    • Ethics – Phil 31A
      • Ethics? Where?!?
      • Egypt & Babylon
      • Hindus & Jains
      • Buddha
      • Heraclitus
      • Aristotle
      • Epicurus & Stoics
      • Confucius
      • Mozi & Xunzi
      • Daoism
      • Kant
      • Mill
      • Nietzsche
      • Wittgenstein
      • Fanon, hooks & Said
    • Politics – Phil 2
      • Human Politics
      • Mencius & Mozi
      • Plato’s Republic
      • Aristotle’s Politics
      • Machiavelli
      • Hobbes
      • Locke
      • Rousseau
      • Mill
      • Thoreau
      • Socialism
      • Communism
      • Hegel & Marcuse
      • Anarchism
      • Fascism
      • Postcolonialism
      • Feminism
    • Asia – Phil 37
    • Buddha – Phil 16
    • Greece – Phil 20A
    • Europe – Phil 20B
    • Religion – Hum 40
      • Islam
      • Neo-Platonism
        • Augustine
        • Dionysius
        • Eriugena
        • Francis
        • Aquinas
        • Ockham
        • Cusanus
        • Ficino
      • Protestantism
      • New Religions
  • Americas
    • The Mayans & Aztecs
    • Edgar Allan Poe
      • Philosophy of Furniture
      • Rue Morgue Murders
      • Marie Roget
      • Purloined Letter
    • Henry David Thoreau
    • Comedy & Cynicism
      • Ambrose Bierce
      • Groucho Marx
    • Pragmatism
      • Charles Sanders Peirce
      • William James
      • John Dewey
      • Richard Rorty
      • Cornel West
  • West
    • Britannia
      • William Of Ockham
      • Thomas Hobbes
      • John Locke
      • David Hume
      • George Berkeley
      • John Stuart Mill
      • Bertrand Russell
    • France
      • Rene Descartes
      • Politics
        • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
        • Henri de Saint-Simon
      • Surrealism
        • George Bataille
        • Dada & Modern Art
      • Existentialism
        • Jean-Paul Sartre
        • Franz Fanon
      • Structuralism
        • Jean-Claude Levi-Strauss
        • Jacques Lacan
        • Roland Barthes
        • Michel Foucault
      • Postmodernism
        • Jean-Francois Lyotard
        • Gilles Deleuze
        • Jean Baudrillard
        • Donna Haraway
        • Jacques Derrida
    • Germania
      • Rationalism
        • Baruch Spinoza
        • Gottfried Leibniz
        • Immanuel Kant
      • Phenomenology
        • Johann Fichte
        • Friedrich Schelling
        • Georg Hegel
      • Politics
        • Karl Marx & Communism
        • Marcuse & The New Left
      • Pessimism
        • Arthur Schopenhauer
        • Soren Kierkegaard
        • Friedrich Nietzsche
        • Martin Heidegger
      • Ludwig Wittgenstein
    • 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
  • Mid
    • Egypt
      • Hardjedef
      • Ptahhotep
      • Khun-Anup
      • Amenemopet
      • Ani the Scribe
      • Marikare
    • Babylon
      • Pessimism
      • Theodicy
    • Zoroastrianism
    • Judaism
    • Christianity
    • Islam
      • Al Kindi
      • Al Farabi
      • Avicenna
      • Al Ghazali
      • Averroes
  • East
    • 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
      • Jainism
        • The Tirthankaras
        • 3 Points of View
        • Mind Over Matter
        • The Leaky Boat
        • Nonviolence
        • The Whiteclad & Skyclad
      • Buddhism
        • Life & Desire
        • The Middle Way
        • The Monkey Mind
        • Codependent Arising
        • The Dhammapada
        • The Mid-Length Discourses
        • The Long Discourses
        • Ashoka
    • Tibet
    • 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
      • Sunzi & The Art Of War
      • School of Names
        • Hui Shi
        • Gongsun Long
      • Moism
    • Vietnam
    • Korea
    • Japan
      • Buddhism in Japan
      • Hakuin
      • Dogen
      • Musashi
      • Zen Stories
  • Videos
    • Alice & Aristotle
    • Poe The Detective
    • India
    • Plato’s Dialogues
    • Confucius
    • Daoism
    • Zen
    • Phenomenology
    • Existentialism
    • Postmodernism
  • Me

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