HPC 38. Easy Does It: Non-Action in the Laozi

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  HPC 38. Easy Does It: Non-Action in the Laozi

  12/10/2025

  23:38

  The concept of wuwei or “non-action”: does it mean that the perfect sage or political ruler simply never does anything?
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  HPC 37. She Stoops to Conquer: Femininity in the Laozi

  28/09/2025

  16:45

  How the Laozi (Daodejing) applies the lessons of complementarity to the contrast between male and female.
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  HPC 36. Fishing for Complements: Polarities in Daoism

  14/09/2025

  17:48

  The significance of the Laozi’s use of opposing pairs, which are treated as complementary rather as exclusive dichotomies.
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  HPC 35. Way Better than Greenwashing: Daoism on Nature

  27/07/2025

  21:30

  The Laozi (Daodejing) refers to the winds, the rain and the waters. We discuss how these ideas express the Laozi’s views on nature.
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  HPC 34. You Don’t Say! the Dao That Cannot Be Told

  13/07/2025

  23:31

  The first rule of dao is: don’t talk about dao. We do so nonetheless, focusing on its role in metaphysics and language.
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  HPC 33. Let Us Count the Ways: What is Daoism?

  29/06/2025

  18:14

  What does “Daoism” refer to in a range of contexts, and how have excavated texts changed our understanding of the tensions between Daoism and Confucianism?
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  HPC 32. Chris Fraser on Mohism

  15/06/2025

  35:15

  We conclude our series on Mohism with an interview that looks at the Mohists' dialectic and its relationship to their ethics. 
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  HPC 31. Push and Pull: Mohist Dialectic

  01/06/2025

  22:48

  Later Mohists explained in the Canons how to provide compelling philosophical arguments, and how to avoid mistakes in argumentation. Does this count as “logic”?
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  HPC 30. Horse of a Different Color: the Mohists on Language and Knowledge

  18/05/2025

  22:40

  What Mohist dialectics and Gongsun Long’s “White Horse Not Horse” argument tell us about the connection between language and knowledge.
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  HPC 29. Ghost Writers: the Mohists on Religion

  04/05/2025

  18:31

  Did Mozi tell people that ghosts exist and that we can change our fate because he thought these things are true, or because it would be beneficial for people to believe them?