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.
A note from the publisher: To read relevant passages from the original works of Chinese philosophy, see our ebook Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi: Selected Passages , available wherever books are sold..
With its...spirited, convincing vision, revolutionary new insights can be gleaned from this book on how to approach life\'s multifarious situations with both heart and head ( Kirkus Reviews ).
Its most radical idea is that there is no path to follow in the first place--just a journey we create anew at every moment by seeing and doing things differently.
In other words, The Path opens the mind ( Huffington Post ) and upends everything we are told about how to lead a Good life.
Excellence comes from What we choose to do, not our natural abilities.
Influence comes not from wielding power but from holding back.
A Good Life emerges not from planning it out, but through training ourselves to respond well to small moments.
Good relationships come not from being sincere and authentic, but from the rituals we perform within them.
And What are these counterintuitive ideas? Transformation comes not from looking within for a true self, but from creating conditions that produce new possibilities.
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.
Why is a course on ancient Chinese Philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard? Because it challenges all our modern assumptions about What it takes to flourish.
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
