This Is The Way: Chinese Philosophy Podcast

Auteur(s): Richard Kim and Justin Tiwald
  • Résumé

  • This Is The Way is a podcast on Chinese philosophy, exploring philosophical themes by reflecting on significant Chinese texts and through interviews with scholars of Chinese thought. We aim to offer discussions that are informative and accessible to a broad audience.


    Please email us at: ChinesePhilosophyPodcast@gmail.com and follow us on X @ChinesePhilPod

    © 2025 This Is The Way: Chinese Philosophy Podcast
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Épisodes
  • Episode 17: The Mohist State of Nature Argument
    Feb 14 2025

    In this episode, we delve into the Mozi’s "state of nature argument," a vision of human life before political order and an explanation of how humans left that state. The Mohists were history’s first consequentialists and an important and influential classical school of thought. Were they right about the foundations of political society and government? Join us as we examine the Mohists' most influential moral and political ideas and explore how moral disagreement and self-interest shape political order.

    Many thanks to The Hong Kong Ethics Lab for sponsoring this podcast series.

    Want to continue the discussion? Need links to some of the sources mentioned? Go to the support page for this episode on Warp, Weft, and Way.

    We thank Lena Li (LI La 李拉 ) for her expert editing and sound engineering. We also thank the blog Warp, Weft & Way for hosting the discussion for this episode.

    Co-hosts:
    Richard Kim's website
    Justin Tiwald's website

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    1 h et 20 min
  • Episode 16: Zhuangzi on Uselessness
    Jan 22 2025

    In this episode, we talk about the theme of uselessness in the Zhuangzi, one of the great foundational texts of philosophical Daoism. What exactly determines whether something is useful or useless? Is usefulness largely or fundamentally a matter of perspective? Does the text's apparent recommendation that we be "useless" (in some sense) entail some sort of realism or objectivism about value? We explore these themes together with our guest, Chris Fraser, a major scholar of the Zhuangzi.

    Many thanks to The Hong Kong Ethics Lab for sponsoring this podcast series.

    Want to continue the discussion? Need links to some of the sources mentioned? Go to the support page for this episode on Warp, Weft, and Way.

    We thank Lena Li (LI La 李拉 ) for her expert editing and sound engineering. We also thank the blog Warp, Weft & Way for hosting the discussion for this episode.

    Guest:
    Chris Fraser's website
    Chris Fraser's translation of the Zhuangzi
    Chris Fraser's book about the Zhuangzi

    Co-hosts:
    Richard Kim's website
    Justin Tiwald's website

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    1 h et 20 min
  • Episode 15: Ritual in the Analects
    Jan 1 2025

    It is indisputable that ritual is at the heart of Confucianism—buy why? In this episode we examine Analects 3.17 in which Confucius seems keen to defend a ritual sacrifice of a lamb which his student regards as excessive. We discuss this passage in light of Richard Wollheim's paper, "The Sheep and the Ceremony" which offers a deep and illuminating exploration of this passage and the value of ritual more broadly. We examine questions about the possibility of seeing ritual as intrinsically valuable or constitutive of a good human life, and offer some suggestions about why the Confucians may have been right to place such significant weight on ritual practice.

    Many thanks to The Hong Kong Ethics Lab for sponsoring this podcast series.

    Want to continue the discussion? Need links to some of the sources mentioned? Go to the support page for this episode on Warp, Weft, and Way.

    We thank Lena Li (LI La 李拉 ) for her expert editing and sound engineering. We also thank the blog Warp, Weft & Way for hosting the discussion for this episode.

    Co-hosts:
    Richard Kim's website
    Justin Tiwald's website

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    1 h et 14 min

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