The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us about the Good Life Puett Michael Paperback
The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us about the Good Life Puett Michael Paperback For the first time, an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical…
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The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us about the Good Life Puett Michael Paperback
For the first time, an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how ancient ideas--like the fallacy of the authentic self--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? 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. Because it challenges all our modern assumptions about what it takes to flourish.
Transformation comes not from looking within for a true self, but from creating conditions that produce new possibilities. And what are these counterintuitive ideas? Good relationships come not from being sincere and authentic, but from the rituals we perform within them.
A good life emerges not from planning it out, but