In the first book of its kind, The Pathdraws on the work of six of the great - but largely unknown - Chinese philosophers to offer a fresh and revolutionary guide to human flourishing. By examining the teachings of Chinese thinkers, and explaining what they reveal about our daily lives - from greeting others to raising children - The Pathchallenges some of our deepest held assumptions. It shows that the way to live well is not to slavishly follow a grandplan, as so much of western thought would have us believe, but rather to follow a path -one of self-cultivation and self-discovery.