Confucius. Buddha. Jesus. Muhammad. Four extraordinary sages who influenced world civilization more deeply than any other human beings in history. As just one measure of their importance, current rankings of the most influential people in history consistently put them at or near the top of the list. Four centuries after the rise of the scientific worldview, their influence in human affairs continues to be fundamental, underscoring issues ranging from questions of ethics and justice to religious and political conflicts to other issues that dominate today’s headlines.

Four Exemplars of Noble Living

Confucius, the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad were all born into ancient cultures in the midst of tumultuous changes. Each addressed fundamental existential problems within their societies, developing codes of ethics and behavior that broke with the past, and offering bold new visions of human life.

Grounding your inquiry in the dramatic historical settings of their teachings, you explore and define the unique contributions of each man:

Confucius: China’s primordial philosopher/sage, whose teaching integrally shaped the Chinese constructs of government, human relations, culture, and history. You study the system of Confucian thought that formed the basis of Chinese education for 2,000 years, founded on the sage’s core precepts of “uncommon” humaneness, reciprocity, and the creative power of virtue.

The Buddha: The high-born prince who turned his back on a life of privilege to follow an unrelenting quest for the “supreme state of sublime peace.” You dig deeply into the Buddha’s teachings on the nature of reality, the delusions of human perception, and the practical means for ending suffering.

Jesus of Nazareth: Beloved icon of Christianity, a revered prophet in Islam, and the dominant figure in Western culture for nearly two millennia. You explore his archetypal dual role as both harbinger of God’s kingdom and spiritual teacher, and you see how his teachings revealed a liberating alternative to humanity’s oppressive inequities.

Muhammad: Al-Lah’s “last” prophet and the central example of the faithful Muslim. His teachings brought Islam into being even as he struggled with the roles of both political and military leader of his community. You study Muhammad’s teachings on the oneness and inscrutability of the absolute, his dynamic vision of ethical action, and Islam’s complex spiritual disciplines.

36 Lectures:

A Quartet of Sages
Confucius’s China
Becoming a Sage
A Gentleman and a Scholar
Heaven and Earth
Doing unto Others
How to Rule a Kingdom
What a Sage Does
Confucius and Confucianism
India at the Time of the Buddha
Siddhattha Gotama
The First and Second Great Awakenings
Knowing the World
Can’t Get No Satisfaction
Getting to the Farther Shore
How the Buddha Taught
The Buddha and Buddhism
The Jewish and Roman Worlds of Jesus
The Son of Mary
The First 30 Years
The Kingdom of God
Back to the Future
Jesus’s Christology
The Last Days in Jerusalem
How Jesus Became Christ
Arabia in the Days of Ignorance
The Trustworthy One
“I Am Only a Messenger”
Madinah
The Ethics of Islam
The Greater Jihad
The Conquest of Makkah
Their Lives Compared
Their Teachings Compared
Their Enduring Significance

Take this rare chance, in Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad – to taste the authentic, living wisdom of these visionary sages and to understand the sources of their monumental role in our world.

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