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Lecturer(s)
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Šturdík Martin, Mgr. M.A.
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Kučera Ondřej, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
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Learning outcomes
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Contemporary Confucianism. During the course the students are guided through various texts concerned with Confucianism in the contemporary Chinese society. The course begins with three lectures which purpose is to provide the students with necessary historical and conceptual context. The core of the course are seminars during which various aspects of contemporary Confucianism are discussed on the basis of reading and students? papers. The following topics are stressed: - identity of Confucianism in academic discourse and in popular media - Confucianism between philosophy and religion; the role of these concepts in creating modern Chinese identity - New Confucianism (xin ruxue) At the end of the course the students are able to: - understand the question ?what is Confucianism? in all its complexity and to apply this understanding on their reading of various texts - understand and explain the principal Confucian concepts and ideas in historical context - analyze the concepts? and ideas? actual meaning in a given context and particular discourse - critically examine the categories traditionally applied to Chinese philosophy and religion - critically analyze and interpret concepts, ideas, and their political and medial representations in various contexts
Contemporary Confucianism. During the course the students are guided through various texts concerned with Confucianism in the contemporary Chinese society. The course begins with three lectures which purpose is to provide the students with necessary historical and conceptual context. The core of the course are seminars during which various aspects of contemporary Confucianism are discussed on the basis of reading and students? papers.
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Prerequisites
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The lecture is open to students, graduate students field CHINESE PHILOLOGY. After consultation with the guarantee attestation it can be visited and studetni II. Block undergraduate courses.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark
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Recommended literature
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Bell, Daniel A. (2008). China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society. Princeton UP.
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Bell, Daniel A. and Hahm Chaibong (eds.) . (2003). Confucianism for the Modern World. Cambridge UP.
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Bell, Daniel A. (ed.). Confucian Political Ethics. Princeton UP.
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Cheng, Anne. Dějiny čínského myšlení. 1. vyd. Praha : DrahmaGaia, 2006..
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Jensen, Lionel M. Manufacturing Confucianism. Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization. Duke UP.
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Makeham, John. (2008). Lost Soul: "Confucianism" in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse. Harvard University Asia Center.
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Richey, Jeffrey L. (ed.). (2008). Teaching Confucianism . Oxford UP.
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Tu Wei-ming. (1985). Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation. Albany: SUNY Press.
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Tu Wei-ming. (1999). Humanity and Self-Cultivation: Essays in Confucian Thought. Boston: Cheng & Taji.
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