Philosophy

Lecture Plan

1. Ancient Indian Philosophy

1.1. Metaphysical Origins: From Ritual Ecstasy to the Realisation of Cosmic Order

1.2. Orthodoxy (Astika): The Path of the Vedas

1.3. Heterodoxy (Nastika): Radical Protest

2. Ancient Chinese Philosophy

2.1. The Cosmos as a Living Organism and the Quest for Social Harmony

2.2. Confucianism: Ethics as the Architecture of the Soul and the State

2.3. Daoism: The Path of Nature