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哈佛最受欢迎的中国哲学课Michael Puett on the Enduring Lessons of Chinese Philosophy哈佛最受欢迎的中国哲学课Since 2006, Michael Puett has taught an undergraduate survey course at Harvard University on Chinese philosophy, examining how classic Chinese texts are relevant today. The course is now one of Harvard’s most popular, third only to “Introduction to Computer Science” and “Principles of Economics.” Mr. Puett and the writer Christine Gross-Loh have distilled the essence of his course into “The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life.” The book has been bought by publishers in 25 countries, including China, where the book will be published this year.自2006年以来，普鸣(Michael Puett)一直在哈佛大学(Harvard University)向本科生教授中国哲学概论，探讨中国经典著作如何与当下产生关联。如今，这门课是哈佛最受欢迎的课程之一，仅次于《计算计科学入门》与《经济学原理》。普鸣与作家克里斯蒂·格罗斯-骆(Christine Gross-Loh)将这门课程的精华提炼出来，写就了《正道：中国哲学家论好的生活》(The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life)。这本书已被25个国家的出版社购买了版权，包括中国。今年它就会在中国面世。In an interview, Mr. Puett discussed the value of rituals, reading Du Fu as well as Shakespeare, and why embracing your true self is not the answer.在采访中，普鸣探讨了仪式的价值，谈到既要读莎士比亚，也要读杜甫，还解释了为什么拥抱真实的自我并非真正的答案。Some Chinese philosophical texts are already very popular in the West. There are innumerable translations, for example, of Laotzu’s Tao Te Ching.一些中国哲学著作在西方已经非常流行。它们有许多的译本，比如老子的《道德经》。Some of the texts are indeed very popular, but one of my concerns is that they’re often read according to our stereotypes. They are often thought of as “traditional” ideas, focused on teaching us to accord with the world as it is, as opposed to what we like to call “modern” ideas that are focused on liberating us as individuals to decide for ourselves how to live. So-called Confucianism, for example, is read as simply being about forcing people to accept their social roles, while so-called Taoism is about harmonizing with the larger natural world. So Confucianism is often presented as bad and Taoism as good. But in neither case are we really learnin