Leah Kalmanson
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first heard Mar 2021
last heard Mar 2021
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You know, they really find it an inspiring text at the end.
And it's become theirs, you know, it's really become theirs.
They've they've had to memorize it.
And at the end then, yes, I I give them commentaries on on the text, one by Zhu Xi and one by his sort of um later rival, not rival really, but portrayed as his rival in the in the literature, uh, Wang Yangming.
And they read these sort of differing interpretations um of the text by these two thinkers.
And then I ask them to write, write their own commentary, to produce their own commentary on the text.
And I instruct them, you know, try to make the text live for your peers, you know, try to make it something that your friends would want to to learn about.
So in the end it ends up I mean, I think it ends up being really fun, but it it i you'd have to ask my students if that's the case.
But I do think I I do think it goes a long way toward problematizing what we mean to do philosophy, that it's not just about sort of battling it out in a dialogue or or or conducting sort of an analytical argument argumentation argument model.
But that it has to do with this this process of deep engagement with a text, which eventually does lead to you finding your own voice, right, in that conversation.
Well I guess one thing I would just add is that
You know, it's okay not to do everything in every class.
Um, I I certainly, you know, rely on where my, you know, where my skills and experience are to bring in material into my classes.
Um, and another thing, you know, I think about that that I think we do very much stand behind the idea that we don't want to just import
European or Eurocentric methodologies and theories and sort of like frameworks for discourse onto the traditions.
But on the other hand, I do think.
you know, it's okay to start with we your own interests.
So if you are an analytic philosopher of mind, right, and you're you yourself are personally interested in certain questions, it is perfectly you know, that's a good place to start in terms of like what would you want to bring in to learn more?
um about how those questions might have been explored in other traditions.
And I do hope that our book, you know
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