The Essential Mòzǐ :Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings - Oxford World's Classics

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The Essential Mòzǐ

The Essential Mòzǐ :Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings - Oxford World's Classics

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'The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world' The Mòzǐ is among the founding texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition, presenting China's earliest ethical, political, and logical theories. The collected works introduce concepts, assumptions, and issues that had a profound, lasting influence throughout the classical and early imperial eras. Mòzǐ and his followers developed the world's first ethical theory, and presented China's first account of the origin of political authority from a state of nature. They were prominent social activists whose moral and political reform movement sought to improve the welfare of the common people and eliminate elite extravagance and misuse of power. In this new translation, Chris Fraser focuses on the philosophical aspects of the writing and allows readers to truly enter the Mohists' world of thought. This abridged edition includes the essential political and social topics of concern to this vital movement. Informed by traditional and recent scholarship, the translation presents the Mohists' ideas and arguments clearly, precisely, and coherently, while accurately reflecting the meaning, terminology, and style of the original.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780198848103
ISBN10 0198848102
Number Of Pages 336
Item Weight 238 g
Product Dimensions 130 x 198 x 18 mm
Publisher / Reseller Oxford University Press
Format paperback
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The annotated translation (commendably, Chinese terms are rendered using Pīnyīn including tonal marks) is elegantly crafted and indeed mindful of past terminological debates in the relevant scholarship...Both students and scholars of East Asian religion will have much to gain from this master translation. * Lukas Pokorny, Religious Studies Review *
Both students and scholars of East Asian religion will have much to gain from this master translation. * Lukas Pokorny, Religious Studies Review *
It offers an exceptional and philosophically informed translation of the text. It is easily among the most important works of recent decades in Mohist studies. * Yun Wu, Dao *

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Chris Fraser is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The Philosophy of the Mozi (Columbia, 2016), Late Classical Chinese Thought (Oxford, forthcoming), and many dozen research articles on early Chinese ethics, epistemology, philosophy of language and logic, and philosophy of mind and action. His work can be accessed at cjfraser.net

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