| Buddha, Jesus, Plato (RelSty G204, Intermediate Seminar, Fall 2009) |
| East Asian Religions (RelSty/EASIAN L232) (Fall 2009) |
| Psychology, Politics, and Philosophy in East Asia (A course on Confucianism. RelSty/EASIAN L358, Spring 2009) |
| Continuing Education Sessions |
| East Asian Religions (RelSty/ASIAN 232L) (Summer Session 2009) |
| Socrates, Jesus, Buddha (RelSty 104; Summer Session ) |
Links to readings for all courses can be found in the Assignment Schedule for each course.
Advice for reading these writings on the web (How to make the margins narrower and the print larger, for easier reading)
Note also that PowerPoint Presentations display properly only on Internet Explorer (due to some incompatibility between PowerPoint and Firefox).
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Book in Progress: What Finally Matters: cultural diversity, otherworldly faith, and critical reason(A book in progress, based on the course Buddha, Jesus, Plato, comments welcome.)
Link to some chapters from my book Tao and Method
| God and Tao | |
| 'Nature' as part of human culture in Taoism | |
| More Mencius-on-human-nature discussions: what are they about? | |
| Confucianism and the role of artists and intellectuals | |
| The problem of Confucian "elitism" | |
| Confucianism for the West | |
| Social roles: Western Intellectuals and Confucian Literati | |
| Radically Pluralist, Thoroughly Critical: A New Theory of Religions | |
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Intellectuals and the Origins of the Modern State: The Founding Myth and its Historical Vicissitudes. (Excerpts and comments from Social Scientist Zigmunt Bauman on this subject.) |
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| An interchange with UMB Philosophy Professor Adam Beresford on methodology issues involved in trying to recreate true picture "the real historical Jesus," based on historical evidence | |