The Art of Governing the World

This book includes three of the most famous treatises dedicated to strategies of behavior in conflicts of any level – from military actions to political debates and psychological rivalry. The ancient Chinese treatise The Art of War, written more than two thousand years ago by the great commander and strategist Sun Tzu, is a foundational text of the school of military philosophy. The Book of Five Rings by the Japanese mentor Miyamoto Musashi discusses honor and martial virtue and is dedicated to the art of strategy. In the third part of the publication, the reader can become acquainted with the sayings of Confucius, an ancient thinker and philosopher whose ideas laid the foundation for a new philosophical system known as Confucianism.