Eastern Political Philosophy

Professor Kozlowski presents a woefully inadequate look at some key ideas in the political philosophy of China and India, specifically:

Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching

The Analects of Confucius

Mo-Tzu

The Laws of Manu

Along the way we'll talk about the differences between Eastern and Western attitudes toward virtue, rule, and government, as well as how these texts take on a very different perspective from those we've seen in Ancient Greece.

...and then we won't talk about them again until the 20th century or so. Alas - we still need to make room for all that Marx and Hobbes.

I will (one day) upload the document I've produced for my students, which excerpts each of the above texts, to my website, so you may be able to find it there.

Additional readings include: Mencius, Sun-Tzu's The Art of War, Intrigues of the Warring States, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Bhagavad-Gita, and Fire Emblem for my gamer fans.

If you're interested in Professor Kozlowski's other online projects, check out his website: ⁠⁠⁠professorkozlowski.wordpress.com