Moral World History of Thought

Author: Chen Wenbin
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Publish Date: 2007-02-01
Features: The power of classics is immense, but so is their length. In this era of fleeting moments, who can afford to settle down and study classics like a monk chanting scriptures? Fortunately, classics offer another way of reading—rapid reading. It selects the essence from mountains of treasures for you, extracts the from the vast 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 monumental works and characteristics and essence of the sages, commenting on the academic disputes and entanglements of the giants, and uncovering the hidden secrets and interesting anecdotes behind the history of thought. Whether it's Plato's "Theory of Forms," Rousseau's "Natural Rights," Toynbee's "Cultural Morphology," or Heidegger's "Existentialism," or Confucius and Mencius's "Confucianism," or Dong Zhongshu's "Heaven-Mortals Interaction," this book provides professional, thorough, clear, and vivid accounts. While comprehending and absorbing the intellectual wisdom of predecessors, we also broaden our minds, enhance our thinking power, and perfect and elevate our worldview and philosophy of life. By reading this book, we familiarize ourselves with the complete journey of the history of human thought and understand the true meaning of life.