This page is under construction. I will try to revise some relevant course notes and post them here eventually. Meanwhile, students might find the following sites helpful:
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Garth Kemerling's helpful study guide.
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Jim Pryor's guidelines on how to read a philosophy paper.
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Jim Pryor's discussion of philosophical terms and methods.
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Prof. Joe Lau's advice on how to study philosophy
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The extensive University of London study guide for philosophy
若夫乘天地之正而御六氣之辯以遊無窮者,彼且惡乎待哉!—〈逍遙遊〉
Now were one to mount the norms of heaven and earth, riding the fluctuations of the six qì, and thus wander in the limitless, how would that person's activity be contingent on anything! — Zhuāngzǐ, “Meanderingly Wandering"
臣之所好者道也,進乎技矣。
— 庖丁
What I'm keen on is dào. It goes beyond skill.
— Páo Dīng
不知周之夢為胡蝶與?胡蝶之夢為周與?...此之謂物化。
I wonder, is it that Joe dreams of being a butterfly, or that the butterfly dreams of being Joe? ...This is what's called "things transform."