Honors Humanistic Traditions I: Week 2

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The Living Past

• World Monuments Fund
  • Iraq: Erbil Citadel

Social Order vs. Living Authentically: Several Ancient Cases

Mesopotamia: Sumer, Babylon

• Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia
• Ancient History Sourcebook: Persia
• Sumerian Cunieform
• Mythic Stories: Gilgamesh
  • Summary of Gilgamesh
  • Overview of Gilgamesh
  • Gilgamesh in Flash and text
  • Full Text
  • Gilgamesh (movie, in production)
• Mythic Stories II: Enuma Elish (Babylonian Creation Story)
• Social Order: Code of Hammurabi
  • Full Text of the Code

Mesopotamian Art

Israel

• Ancient History Sourcebook: Israel
• Social Order: The Decalogue (Ten Commandments)
  • Views and Interpretations of the Ten Commandments from ReligiousTolerance.org
• Living Authentically: Job

India

• Social Order vs. Living Authentically: Bhagavad-Gita
  • Texts and Resources
  • Overview essay
    • Excerpt: The Ethical Problem in the Bhagavad-Gita
• Hindu Resources

China

• Living Authentically: Dao de Jing (Tao te Ching)
  • Taoist Stories
  • Taoism Information Page
  • Several Translations
  • Peter Merel's Translation - Assignment for Thursday: Read this version of the Tao te Ching, and come prepared to talk about what you think "The Way" is. For a printable copy, click here.
  • Some questions on the Tao te Ching
  • Taoism and the Philosophy of Tai Chi Chuan - overview
  • Sun Tzu & The Art of War
  • I Ching