Courses
GCVM1006 Dao and Good Life: Laozi and Zhuangzi (3 units)
What is good life? How should I live my life? What values and ethics should guide me? This course will explore the answers that the Daoist philosophers Laozi and Zhuangzi have offered to these questions. Students will be introduced: (1) the major concepts and views of Laozi on the principles of Dao and the way of life in the Dao De Jing, including the notion of the constant Dao of emptiness, the idea of weakness, and the concept of reversion; (2) how these principles can be employed to tackle problems in life in order to achieve a good life; and (3) major concepts and views of Zhuangzi’s ethics and philosophy of life, including the notion of the Dao of transformation, the authenticity of the true self, the equality of things and opinions, etc.
http://ge.hkbu.edu.hk/course/GCVM-1006/