History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
4.7from 490 ratings
- 266
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- Transcribed
- 490
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
About History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
Peter Adamson teams up with Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers, and Karyn Lai to represent the philosophical traditions of ancient India, Africa and the African diaspora, and classical China. Website: www.historyofphilosophy.net.
- Publisher
- Peter Adamson, Jonardon Ganeri, Chike Jeffers
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Sept 2015
- Latest episode
- 4 Oct 2026
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40 of 266 episodes have a transcript.
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
HPC 61. The Cosmos in Motion: Han Dynasty Philosophy
20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
HPC 60. Alice Yao on Han Archeology
1 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
HPC 59. Forget Me Not: Han History Writing
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HPC 61. The Cosmos in Motion: Han Dynasty Philosophy
Published 4 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The relation between Yin and Yang is not simplistic, as if they were locked in a zero-sum struggle where more Yin means less Yang and vice versa. Rather, as the concepts were applied, the meaning of each complement in the pair is defined in terms of the other, and in a way dependent on context. As the scholar of early Chinese intellectual history, John Henderson, remarks, Even at the height of the yang, there exists the germ of yin, and vice versa. Yin and yang, moreover, are not absolutes, but relational ideas. An old man may be yang with respect to a woman, but is yin with respect to a young man. […]
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