Comparative Societies and Cultures 2017/18
Online from 18th December 2017
On site from 22nd July to 4th August 2018 (14 days)
Ages 12 to 16
Studio in conversation with Jeanee Linden
Online study units
Unit 1: Religion and Moral Outlook
1) Confucianism and Greek Ethical Thinking
2) Mohism and Christianity
3) Daoism and Mysticism
4) Mencius vs Xunzi and Nature vs Nurture in moral thinking
5) Epicureanism vs Stoicism and Buddhism vs Confucianism
6) Zhu Xi and Aquinas – bringing metaphysics to religion
7) Anti-rationalism in religious/ethical thought in Wang Yangming and Pascal
8) Christianity and Confucianism meet
9) Yan Fu and Herbert Spencer – ethics without the transcendent
10) Unwinding of traditional morality in 20th century west and China
Unit 2: Science and Cosmology
1) Greek Logic and Chinese 名学
2) Development of Mathematics in China and Greece
3) Development of Astronomy in China and Greece
4) Understanding the Natural World in China and Greece
5) Development of Medicine in China and West
6) Technological Developments in China and West
7) 格物致知 and the scientific method
8) Metaphysics and Cosmology in China and Greece
9) Xu Guangqi meets western mathematics
10) West’s adoption of Chinese technology