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The path : what Chinese philosophers can teach us about the good life / Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781476777832 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: xvi, 204 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The age of complacency -- The age of philosophy -- On relationships: Confucius, and as-if rituals -- On decisions: Mencius, and the capricious world -- On influence: Laozi, and generating worlds -- On vitality: the inward training, and being like a spirit -- On spontaneity: Zhuangzi, and the world of transformation -- On humanity: Xunzi, and putting pattern on the world -- The age of possibility. |
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| Subject: | Philosophy, Chinese > History. |
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- Baker & Taylor
A Harvard professor shares his popular course on classical Chinese philosophy to demonstrate how ancient, counterintuitive wisdom can offer guidance to a good life in the modern world. - Baker & Taylor
For the first time an award-winning Harvard professor shares the lessons from his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how these ancient ideas can guide you on the path to a good life today. - Simon and Schuster
For the first time an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how these ancient ideas can guide you on the path to a good life today.
Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard?
Itâs because the course challenges all our modern assumptions about what it takes to flourish. This is why Professor Michael Puett says to his students, âThe encounter with these ideas will change your life.â As one of them told his collaborator, author Christine Gross-Loh, âYou can open yourself up to possibilities you never imagined were even possible.â
These astonishing teachings emerged two thousand years ago through the work of a succession of Chinese scholars exploring how humans can improve themselves and their society. And what are these counterintuitive ideas? Good relationships come not from being sincere and authentic, but from the rituals we perform within them. Influence comes not from wielding power but from holding back. Excellence comes from what we choose to do, not our natural abilities. A good life emerges not from planning it out, but through training ourselves to respond well to small moments. Transformation comes not from looking within for a true self, but from creating conditions that produce new possibilities.
In other words, The Path upends everything we are told about how to lead a good life. Above all, unlike most books on the subject, its most radical idea is that there is no path to follow in the first placeâjust a journey we create anew at every moment by seeing and doing things differently.
Sometimes voices from the past can offer possibilities for thinking afresh about the future.
A note from the publisher:
To read relevant passages from the original works of Chinese philosophy, see our free ebook Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi: Selected Passages, available on Kindle, Nook, and the iBook Store and at Books.SimonandSchuster.com.
