What is the best way to live a flourishing life? How does one make ethical choices? And what should we concretely do to live in a fuller and more inspiring way? Questions such as these were at the heart of philosophical debates in China. The answers that classical Chinese thinkers developed in response to these questions are among the most powerful in human history The goal of this talk will be to ask what we can learn if we take some of these ideas seriously.

Co-sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa, Core: Conversations, and Chapel House.

Refreshments will be provided.

All are welcome.

Presented by Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology and the Victor and William Fung Director of the Asia Center at Harvard University; Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar