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1240 Social Sciences and Humanities
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- The second paper topic has been assigned.
This list shows which material has been covered in each class period.
- March 29: Introductory Remarks
- March 31: The Vedas and Upanishads
- April 5: The Bhagavad-Gita
- April 7: The Mahabarata, The Laws of Manu
- April 12: The Nyaya School: Theory of Knowledge
- April 14: The Nyaya School: Existence of God, the Vedanta School: Brahman and the Worlds
- April 19: The Vedanta School: Brahman and the Worlds. The Carvaka philosophy.
- April 21: Buddhism: Hinayana (Theravada) 1-3, 5(b), 5(c)
- April 26: Buddhism: Theravada metaphysics and epistemology, through Canki Sutta
- April 28: Buddhism: Nagarjuna and the Two Truths
- May 3: Buddhism: Nagarjuna and the Two Truths
- May 5: Orthodox and unorthodox Buddhist accounts of the person
- May 10: Zen Buddhism
- May 12: Confucius
- May 17: Mozi
- May 19: Mengzi
- May 24: Laozi
- May 26: Zhuangzi
- May 31: Xunzi