Read the History of World Thought - Quickly Read Classics

Author: Chen Wenbin
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Publish Date: 2007-02-01
Features: The power of classics is immense, but their length is equally vast. In this era of fleeting moments, who can afford to settle down and study classics like a monk chanting scriptures? Fortunately, classics also have another way of reading—rapid reading. It extracts the essence from mountains of treasures for you, and draws the cream from the depths of history for you. This book follows the timeline and constructs its framework around the history of Eastern and Western thought, reviewing the development and evolution of human intellectual history, analyzing the grand works of the sages and their characteristics and essence, commenting on the academic disputes and entanglements of the great minds, and uncovering the hidden secrets and interesting anecdotes behind the history of thought. Whether it is Plato's "Theory of Forms," Rousseau's "Theory of Natural Rights," Toynbee's "Theory of Cultural-Historical Morphology," or Heidegger's "Existentialism," or Confucius and Mencius's "Confucianism," or Dong Zhongshu's "Theory of," this book provides professional, thorough, clear, and vivid accounts. While comprehending and absorbing the wisdom of predecessors, we also broaden our minds, enhance our intellectual capacity, and perfect and elevate our worldview and philosophy of life. By reading this book, we become familiar with the complete journey of the history of human thought and understand the true meaning of life.