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**International Bestseller** 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? Its because the course challenges all our modern assumptions about what it takes to flourish. This is why Professor Michael Puett says to his students, The encounter with these ideas will change your life. As one of them told his collaborator, author Christine Gross-Loh, You can open yourself up to possibilities you never imagined were even possible. 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 ours

Who reads The Path : What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life?

Author

Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476777849

Category

religious

Subjects

Philosophy, Body Mind & Spirit, Self Help

Rating

3.71 / 5 (1,130 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13