The Path - What Chinese philosophers can teach us about the good life,

The Path - What Chinese philosophers can teach us about the good life, - Michael Puett

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Will historians look back on this era as one of prosperity, equality, freedom and happiness? Or will they instead define the early twenty-first century as an age of complacency: a time when people were unhappy and unfulfilled; when they witnessed growing crisis but failed to respond, feeling there to be no viable alternatives?

I am sure that people of most every age feel that their time is worst and experience the turmoil of change. Existential threats that faced other generations: plague, invasion, persecution, war, nuclear war all seem just a real as today's treats of climate change, fascism, and the Kardasians.

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