Michael J. Puett
Author of The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
About the Author
Michael J. Puett is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Humanities at Harvard University.
Works by Michael J. Puett
Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi: Selected Passages from the Chinese Philosophers in The Path (2016) 19 copies
The Ambivalence of Creation: Debates Concerning Innovation and Artifice in Early China (2002) 9 copies
Das Wichtigste von allem: Die Geheimnisse der großen chinesischen Denker und wie sie unser Leben bereichern… (2016) 3 copies
Associated Works
State Power in Ancient China and Rome (Oxford Studies in Early Empires) (2014) — Contributor — 17 copies
Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond (Oriental Institute Seminars) (2008) — Contributor — 10 copies
Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking Through Comparisons (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) (2002) — Contributor — 9 copies
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The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us… by Michael Puett
More quotations from the original texts would have been helpful. They're surprisingly readable, especially the writings of Zhuangzi. While this reads like a self-help book, the authors do make some effort to place Chinese philosophy in its proper historical context, and to demonstrate that there were many different schools of thought in Warring States China, as opposed to some sort of monolithic "Eastern mysticism." I only wish these philosophers could have met and debated with their ancient Greek contemporaries.… (more)
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