《淮南子》涵蓋層面甚廣,內容豐富。本課程將規劃以六大主題為討論方向,分別為道論、無為思想、政治思想、形神觀、人性論、養生論等六大主題,以全面瞭解其思想內容。並介紹其思想背景、編纂動機、與各家之思想關係,以使同學對黃老思想有整體之認識。
The Huainanzi covers a wide range of aspects and has rich content. The course will plan on discussing it from six subjects including Daoist theory, inaction thought, political thought, form and spirit theory, humanity theory, and the theory of cultivating one’s moral character to let students thoroughly comprehend its thought and content. Additionally, the course will introduce its thought background, compilation motivation and relations with the thought of other schools to let students have integral understanding of the thought of Huang-lao and Laozi.
佛學三藏十二部,浩如煙海,名相特多,且辭意艱深,因此本課程以簡略的方式介紹佛教哲學的基本思想。佛學的出發點和歸宿在於人生的解脫,為了說明人生的解脫問題,逐漸擴展到宇宙的看法,在佛教的典籍中,人生觀和宇宙觀是不可分的,本課程以闡釋佛教哲學為重點,以基本的名相為主要的授課內容,以期能使學生對佛教有個初步的認識。
本課程在於探索與死亡相關的哲學議題。首先,本課程會討論何謂死亡?對於死亡有許多觀點,本課程會討論二元論與物理主義的不同觀點,二元論者主張人是由身體與靈魂組成,但物理主義則主張心靈事件可以被化約到物理事件,所以不需要靈魂或心靈來解釋心靈事件,這些爭論會涉及許多相關議題,例如對於「人」的看法等。其次,思考生命的價值對每個人來說都是必要的,修習本課程能夠讓我們增強面對死亡的能力而且會更熱愛生命。

This course aims to explore the philosophical problems about death. Firstly, we will discuss the nature of death. There are at least two ways to think about this question. One way is to suppose that human beings are composed of a body and a soul as dualists contend. On the other hand, physicalists claim that all mental events can be reduced into physical events so the assumption of the soul which is in order to interpret the mental events can be eliminated. The debate will affect us how to understand some important concept such as person, etc. Secondly, think about the value of life is also very important for everyone, so the study of philosophy of death not only can improve our ability in face of death but also cherish our own life.