Search This Blog

May 1, 2016

Philosophy in Audiobooks_Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition


Book Title: Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition
Written by: The Great Courses
Narrated by: Professor Grant Hardy
Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins 
Series: The Great Courses: Intellectual History

About the Book:

Western philosophy is a vast intellectual tradition, the product of thousands of years of revolutionary thought built up by a rich collection of brilliant minds. But to understand the Western intellectual tradition is to get only half the story. The Eastern intellectual tradition has made just as important a contribution - and is also the product of thousands of years of cumulative thought by a distinct group of brilliant thinkers.

Their ideas demonstrate wholly different ways of approaching and solving the same fundamental issues that concerned the West's greatest thinkers, such as the existence of God, the meaning of life and the nature of truth and reality.

This epic and comprehensive 36-lecture examination of the East's most influential philosophers and thinkers - from a much-honored teacher and scholar - offers a thought-provoking look at the surprising connections and differences between East and West.

By introducing you to the people-including The Buddha, Ashoka, Prince Shotoku, Confucius, and Gandhi - responsible for molding Asian philosophy and for giving birth to a wide variety of spiritual and ideological systems, it will strengthen your knowledge of cultures that play increasingly important roles in our globalized 21st-century world.


(Source: http://www.audible.com/pd/Religion-Spirituality)

Other useful links on Eastern Philosophers:

Timeline of Eastern Philosophers (on wiki):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Eastern_philosophers

The 8 Eastern Philosophers every student should study:

http://www.bachelorsdegreeonline.com/blog/2012/the-8-eastern-philosophers-every-student-should-study/

Note ATA: Lao Tzu and Confucius and Siddhartha Gautama are familiar to me in my upbringing. Sun Tzu is mentioned in the Art of War. and Mao in Maoism. But I am not familiar with Rumi, Mulla Sadra and Nana Dev. I am quite surprise that Gandhi is not on the list, nor The Dalai Lama, or Thich Nhat Hanh. Are they part of Eastern Thinkers also?


No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.