How Confucius Changed My Mind : And What He Can Teach You about the Art of Being Human - Charles B. Jones

How Confucius Changed My Mind

And What He Can Teach You about the Art of Being Human

By: Charles B. Jones

Paperback | 20 May 2025

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A compelling exploration of humanity, morality, religious practice, and leading a good life based on traditional Confucian thought.

A compelling exploration of humanity, morality, religious practice, and leading a good life based on traditional Confucian thought.

In this exploration of humanity, morality, religious practice, and leading a good life based on traditional Confucian thought, you are invited on a path of transformation. The unexpected depths to be found in Confucianism surprised author Charles Jones when he began teaching East Asian religions to undergraduate students thirty years ago. It raised fascinating questions relevant to life today, like what does it mean to be human? To understand the Confucian answers to these questions, Jones familiarizes us with Confucius, his main successors, and the situations to which their writings responded.

But this is not another textbook introduction to Chinese religion and thought. Jones is an engaging, inquisitive scholar and thought provocateur whose ideas address problems all of us face throughout our lives. By engaging with the Confucian ideas explored in this book, like rethinking "human nature" and uncovering cultural presuppositions previously unnoticed, you might discover new horizons and possibilities for your life that previously you never could have imagined. And you will discover Confucius in an all-new light as a profound shaper of modern thought as much as Aristotle and Lao-tzu-whose revolutionary ideas have the power to change your mind for the better.

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