The History of Chinese Philosophy (Part 1)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Back in 2017, I produced a nine-part series on the history of Chinese philosophy. These were once episodes CHP-184 to 192. In 2021, I removed this series from the CHP lineup of shows and published it as an online course. Since last year the History of Chinese Philosophy series has only been available on my Patreon and CHP Premium. What you're listening to here is an updated and new recording from what first came out seven years ago. In the first of 18 episodes that will be covered in this series, we look at Chinese Philosophy’s Ancient Beginnings and early Western understanding of Chinese Philosophy. The lives of the ancient Chinese sage kings will also be explored and why some philosophers held them up as role models for society. We will also look at Karl Jaspers's Theory of the Axial Age. For these first ten episodes, the focus will be on pre-Confucian and Confucian philosophers, Legalism, and how Confucianism developed up to the Tang Dynasty. Transcripts to all eighteen episodes are available on Amazon, Barnes Noble, and at Earnshaw Books. Below are links if you're interested. Amazon Link: https://a.co/d/ahw3oWq Earnshaw Books Link: https://earnshawbooks.com/product/the-history-of-chinese-philosophy-book-1/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Lhasla Montgomery here.
0:02.0	Welcome to the start of another CHP series
0:04.8	that will trace the development of Chinese philosophy
0:08.4	through the lives of about three dozen philosophers.
0:11.8	Some will look at in greater depth than others, and will trace the historical
0:16.2	timeline and see where philosophy in China began, how it developed, and throughout this series
0:22.0	we'll also examine the historic events going on in the background
0:26.0	that we're driving a lot of this thought.
0:29.1	Let me encourage you to download the infographic that accompanies this series and to keep it handy.
0:34.4	And just in case you're not a fluent Mandarin speaker,
0:37.2	please refer to the master list of terms at the teacup.
0:40.8	Media website.
0:42.2	Just click on the convenient link at the show notes and that will get
0:45.1	you access to the list of terms. You could download them and print them.
0:50.1	It's my hope that, as Will de Ron said in his introduction to classical Chinese philosophy,
0:56.4	that this quote And quote, we look at these ancients and perhaps think their world was so simple back then.
1:16.4	They were so ignorant of so much knowledge and intellectual discovery that we take for granted in our day, their circumstances compared to ours in the 21st century?
1:27.2	What could we possibly have in common with these people from so long ago?
1:32.2	Well, in examining the things they cared about and thought about,
1:36.7	it turns out we have quite a bit in common with them.
1:39.7	The historic scope of this series will span the beginnings of the Western Joe Dynasty to Wagnon Ming midway through the Ming Dynasty, roughly 11th century BC to the 16th century. half a millennia ago.
1:53.4	The backdrop for the first part of this story was the Joe Dynasty.
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