43. Michael Puett (Harvard Chinese Philosophy Scholar) – Freedom Through Ritual
Can ancient Chinese philosophy change your life?
April 23, 2016
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43. Michael Puett (Harvard Chinese Philosophy Scholar) – Freedom Through Ritual
Summary
Michael Puett teaches one of three most popular undergraduate courses at Harvard, on ancient Chinese philosophy and ethics: Daoism, Confucianism, Legalism, Moism, and more. What keeps students coming back year after year to this seemingly esoteric subject? Puett promises that if you take the ideas in his course seriously, they will change your life. He captures these ideas in his new book The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life, co-authored with Christine Gross-Loh.
On this week's episode of Think Again, Puett and host Jason Gots discuss free will, Western individualism, and more, with surprise prompts from interview clips with Jesse Ventura and Nobel Laureate physicist Frank Wilczek.
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