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Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition

By: Grant Hardy, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Grant Hardy
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Western philosophy is a vast intellectual tradition, the product of thousands of years of revolutionary thought built up by a rich collection of brilliant minds. But to understand the Western intellectual tradition is to get only half the story. The Eastern intellectual tradition has made just as important a contribution-and is also the product of thousands of years of cumulative thought by a distinct group of brilliant thinkers

. Their ideas demonstrate wholly different ways of approaching and solving the same fundamental issues that concerned the West's greatest thinkers, such as the existence of God, the meaning of life and the nature of truth and reality.

This epic and comprehensive 36-lecture examination of the East's most influential philosophers and thinkers - from a much-honored teacher and scholar - offers a thought-provoking look at the surprising connections and differences between East and West. By introducing you to the people-including The Buddha, Ashoka, Prince Shotoku, Confucius, and Gandhi - responsible for molding Asian philosophy and for giving birth to a wide variety of spiritual and ideological systems, it will strengthen your knowledge of cultures that play increasingly important roles in our globalized 21st-century world.

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I really enjoyed this course. And it was packed full of information. Most of which was new to me. One of the joys of the Great Courses is that I can listen to it again with the pdf so more of it sticks in my brain.

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Thrilling course through a grand sweep of history. I can’t recommend this enough! Thank you!

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A really enjoyable introduction to ideas in Eastern thought, a huge amount of which I'd never heard of! Baffling amounts of names in unfamiliar syllables but an inspiration to read further.

A really quick run through!

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Enjoyable teaching style. Great analogies chosen to illustrate complex ideas, and nice highlights to give a flavour of each thinker. Some lectures manage to cover an impressive amount of material in 30 minutes! I took longer to finish this course, as so many people and ideas were introduced, but I will doubtless need to listen again. I had always been interested in Chinese thought, but now I am motivated to read some Indian philosophy too.

Rich & accessible guide to Eastern thought

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What did you like most about Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition?

It's very interesting and covers all the ground in a reasonably simple manner for outsiders. The professor is good and knows his stuff. He also presents it a somewhat light heated fashion, which complements the content well.

What does Professor Grant Hardy bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Unlike audiobooks that are written books just read aloud, this is a lecture series specifically designed for audio format. This makes it MUCH easier to listen to than a traditional audio book.

Great tour through the east

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