The Zhuangzi, a 4th century BCE Daoist text, is sceptical about the political culture of its
time. Those who debated conceptions of a good life were hostile to the views of others. They …

Fraser highlights an unattractive feature of Mohist ethics: the Mohists, while criticizing their
Confucian contemporaries, restrict one's pursuits to the most basic sorts of goods. Fraser …

This essay argues that the third-century BC Ruist “masters” text Xúnzǐ presents a
sophisticated approach to semantics and epistemology in which a concern with truth is at …

Both pre-Qin Confucianism and Mohism aimed to find a universalist consensus of belief in
order to deal with social chaos and disunity, but they diverged at a basic level on what is the …

The history of philosophy has undergone remarkable growth in the English language
philosophical world. In addition to more and better quality translations of canonical texts …

In early Chinese philosophical discussions, a range of prominent philosophers developed
conflicting moral and political philosophies and evinced, at times, a certitude of the …

ABSTRACT A longstanding orthodoxy holds that the Mohists regard the promotion of li
(benefit, 利) as their ultimate normative criterion, meaning that they measure what is yi (just …

The Mohists may have been the first consequentialists on earth. Their most important
principles are that right action is what benefits the world and that the underlying outlook for …

The Mohists and the Zhuangists agreed that truth is normative (by which I mean action-
guiding) and constitutive of our attitudes, dispositions, reasoning, emotions, and actions. 1 …

There is, to my knowledge, no sustained discussion of the concept of fanaticism in early
Chinese thought. Indeed, insofar as there is no classical Chinese term that corresponds to …