{"id":5513,"date":"2014-10-04T12:19:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T16:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2014-12-06T11:35:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T15:35:05","slug":"the-city-college-cuny-class-phil-34402-chinese-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5513","title":{"rendered":"The City College CUNY Class: Phil 34402 Chinese Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor: Lou Marinoff<\/p>\n<p>Basically this class talks about Confucius' Analects and LaoZi's Dao De Jing. The professor apparently regards this class from the viewpoint of Buddhism. I intend to take this class as supplement to my Philosophy minor.<br \/>\nMost supplements and syllabus are on his <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/#folders\/0B92f8lHPx_vYN1B6bVIySUJWSnM\" target=\"_blank\">google drive<\/a>. As for online I-Ching resource, he recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ichingonline.net\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I shall record my journey of studying Confucius and Lao Zi here.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Confucius<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Analects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good comparison between Chinese original and English translation.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acmuller.net\/con-dao\/analects.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.acmuller.net\/con-dao\/analects.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Marinoff suggested Arthur Waley's translation, the <a href=\"http:\/\/acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu\/~phalsall\/texts\/analects.txt\" target=\"_blank\">free version online <\/a>mistaken as Arthur Waley, but was actually translated by James Legge in 1893, which I found out later doing a quick search). Apparently some of the students in class were using fooled by this error as well. Verses are not marked.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia lists <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Analects#Notable_translations\" target=\"_blank\">notable translations<\/a>, some of which are available freely online. I cannot find any parallel comparison site online as the one I found for Lao Zi's Tao De Ching. I could start a project website for a translation comparison chart. I also should mirror backup Lao Zi's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilewords.pro\/Tao\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mobilewords.pro\/Tao\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lao Zi<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Tao De Ching<\/strong><br \/>\nLots of English Translators Comparison (Prof. Marinoff's book is translated by <a title=\"Tao Te Ching Translated from the Chinese by Ch'u Ta-Kao. 1982. Mandala Books ISBN 0-04-299011-4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilewords.pro\/Tao\/biblio.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ch'u Ta-Kao <\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/baike.baidu.com\/view\/878046.htm?fr=iciba\" target=\"_blank\">\u521d\u5927\u544a<\/a>) &amp; <a title=\"Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, with Foreword and Notes by Stephen Mitchell. 1991. HarperPerennial ISBN 0-06-091608-7\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilewords.pro\/Tao\/biblio.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Mitchell<\/a>). It would appear that Red Pine has very accurate translation.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilewords.pro\/Tao\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mobilewords.pro\/Tao\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A good Chinese source, with pinyin, no verse labels but tedious explanation.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zxuew.cn\/daodejing\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.zxuew.cn\/daodejing\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently reliable chinese explanation, with Chinese medicinal application.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/doc.zenw.org\/ddj\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/doc.zenw.org\/ddj\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese Text with some English Translations Comparison, but translations are a little off sometimes. However, Chinese Characters have pinyin and definitions. The same site has other books such as Sun Tzu's The Art of War.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowbridge.com\/onlinelit\/daodejing.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.yellowbridge.com\/onlinelit\/daodejing.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prof. took a day off on 10\/14 for a trip to Italy for the Global China Business Meeting hosted by horasis.org (which also hosts India, etc. Business Meeting).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor: Lou Marinoff Basically this class talks about Confucius' Analects and LaoZi's Dao De Jing. The professor apparently regards this class from the viewpoint of Buddhism. I intend to take this class as supplement to my Philosophy minor. Most supplements &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5513\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5735,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions\/5735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}