Message from cmayfield

[Anonymous]

This class was very helpful. I have a much better sense of the differences between the four major schools of thought that I did not gain from the reading (as a mathemetician, my brain doesn't seem to "catch" these kinds of things readily).

The team role plays in class helped, and Clay's questions to the teams were a good way to get the class to express themselves about the different schools of thought. Also, Clay's lecture prior to the team role plays helped provide good background concerning why Chinese society evolved in ways that facilitated the appearance and spread of the major schools of thought.

I hope that the class will cover major philosophical influences in the other East Asian countries that are the focus of the class. Although I don't have a strong interest in philosophy, I am curious to see similarities and differences in whether and how other East Asian societies have been influenced by philosphers.