Ignorance is Bliss: The Chinese Art of Not Knowing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ignorance is Bliss: The Chinese Art of Not Knowing write by Mieke Matthyssen. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Ignorance is Bliss: The Chinese Art of Not Knowing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the popular, yet puzzling, Chinese saying Nande hutu 难得糊涂 to uncover how the ancient Chinese wisdom of not knowing is constructed, interpreted, practiced and valued in contemporary society. Originating in the calligraphy of Qing-dynasty scholar Zheng Banqiao, Nande hutu translates literally as: “hard to attain muddle-headedness”. Mieke Matthyssen traces the historical development of this saying and related philosophies to reveal a culturally conditioned, multi-layered inclination to different forms of not knowing. In contemporary society, she argues, this inclination forms part of a living art: in some respects, a passive, evasive strategy for self-preservation; in other respects, a strategy for coping with intrapersonal, interpersonal and social complexities. Drawing on an extensive range of primary sources and original research, the analysis skillfully combines philosophical and socio-historical analysis with theory from Chinese philosophy, philosophical psychology and the relatively new field of indigenous psychology, to provide an in-depth understanding of how Nande hutu has shaped, and continues to shape, the Chinese psyche and behaviour. This book will appeal to all readers looking for fresh insights into Chinese culture, and in particular to students and scholars of Chinese and Asian studies, cultural and social anthropology, and philosophical and indigenous psychology.
If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?
If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? write by John Lloyd. This book was released on 2009-08-04. If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Lloyd and John Mitchinson have proven themselves to be masters at digging up obscure facts, abstruse information, and amusing anecdotes and presenting them effortlessly, somewhat slyly, with either great wit or at least a little bit of tongue in cheek. Their gifts are on full display in Quote Interesting, a lively, wonderfully enjoyable anthology of hundreds of quotes you probably have never heard before, arranged thematically from A to Z. From laugh-out-loud-funny bon mots to some real headscratchers, Lloyd and Mitchinson have gathered a universe of star-studded blurbs like: “The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.” —Victor Lewis Smith “When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.” —Henry James “I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” —Nancy Reagan “You know ‘that look’ women get when they want sex? Me neither.” —Steve Martin
Sweet Melissa
Sweet Melissa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sweet Melissa write by Susan Segovia-Munoz. This book was released on 2016-05-20. Sweet Melissa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A withdrawn teenage girl audaciously dives into the subterranean world of drug addiction, darkness and deceit. While wholeheartedly attempting to escape the vicious merry-go-round of repetition, and haphazardly trying to slip out of the miscreant subculture, she stumbles upon one obstacle after the other.
Ignorance Is Not Bliss
Ignorance Is Not Bliss - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ignorance Is Not Bliss write by Zachariah M Wells. This book was released on 2015-06-26. Ignorance Is Not Bliss available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. My book is promoting seeking knowledge throughout your whole life, no matter how many degrees you have.
The Gospel Focus of Charles Spurgeon
The Gospel Focus of Charles Spurgeon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gospel Focus of Charles Spurgeon write by Steven J. Lawson. This book was released on 2012-03. The Gospel Focus of Charles Spurgeon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Charles Spurgeon, the great Baptist preacher of nineteenth-century London, is remembered today as "the prince of preachers." However, the strength of Spurgeon's ministry went far beyond simple rhetorical skill. In The Gospel Focus of Charles Spurgeon, new from Reformation Trust Publishing, author Steven J. Lawson shows that Spurgeon fearlessly taught the doctrines of grace and tirelessly held forth the free offer of salvation in Jesus Christ. In thirty-eight years as pastor of the congregation meeting at the New Park Street Chapel and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Spurgeon propounded Calvinistic theology with precision and clarity. Yet he always accompanied it with a passionate plea for sinners to come to Christ and be saved. Lawson traces these twin points of emphasis throughout Spurgeon's long, fruitful ministry, showing also that he preached Christ crucified without apology and looked to the Holy Spirit for success in all his endeavors.
