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Book review: The Path – big claims about using Eastern wisdom to attain happiness, not delivered
The best that can be said about this thin and rather condescending attempt to offer life lessons based on Chinese philosophy is that it might encourage some modicum of reflection – and might show readers that their problems are not novel
Reading Time:4 minutes
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The Path: A New Way to Think About Everything
by Professor Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh
Viking Books
3/5 stars
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Every now and again, someone writes a book that brings thorny, complicated philosophical questions to the surface, jarring our media-addled minds into thinking a bit deeper than the next 140-character pronouncement or carefully doctored selfie image.
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