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Thomas Cleary

Living a Good Life

Advice on Virtue, Love, and Action from the Ancient Greek Masters

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This collection of eminently practical advice from the likes of Socrates, Plato, Diogenes, Pythagoras, and Aristotle covers subjects as diverse as money, child-raising, politics, philosophy, law, and relationships-all aspects of life and how to live it. Thomas Cleary has translated these sayings and aphorisms from the Arabic sources that preserved Greek thought throughout the Middle Ages. Many of the texts no longer exist in the original Greek. Included in the book is an appendix that presents resonant sayings and fragments from Buddhist, Taoist, and Muslim sources, demonstrating the universal quality of the teachings of the Greek sages and… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-57062-274-8
  • EAN: 9781570622748
  • Produktnummer: 9309586
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1997

Über den Autor


Thomas Cleary holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He is the translator of over fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts from Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Pali, and Arabic.

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