How to Understand the World and Self: An Introduction to General Philosophy in Colleges and Universities

Philosophy is not difficult at all! The first book that allows you to easily understand philosophy

Philosophy teaches people how to think, how to discover fallacies, and also teaches people to find the meaning and value of life:

who I am? What do I live for? How should I live my life?

Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Mozi...

Plato, Aristotle, Heidegger, Sartre, Kierkegaard, Kant...

An introduction to Chinese and Western philosophy in one book!

This book is the content of the general course of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Macau. It mainly hopes to achieve the following goals:

1. Settle down and settle down: respond to the challenges of teenagers and young adults and use philosophy as a tool to solve their life problems.

2. Establish yourself and others: Understand yourself and others, so as to construct a reasonable set of values ​​and worldview.

3. Think carefully and discern clearly: Cultivate critical thinking to apply it to other subject studies and daily life.

4. Inheriting the past and linking up with the future: inheriting the traditional culture and philosophy of East Asia, examining its strengths and weaknesses, and at the same time understanding that Chinese character culture is a common cultural resource of China, Japan, and Korea, and jumping out of the narrow and shallow nationalist framework.

5. Connecting East and West: Analyze the similarities and differences between East Asian and Western cultures and philosophies, understand the dialogue and interaction between them, enhance the international perspective of culture, and accept diverse values.