Photo of Wai-Wai Chiu
Today's new #HoPWaG is an interview on the debates over argumentation and truth between the Zhuangzi and the Mohists, with Wai-Wai Chiu - a former student of Karyn's!
www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-moh...
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Sun Zhongyuan, tr. Daniel Sarafinas. The Mojing. Origins and Development of Mohist Logic. @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social #AAS2025 #books #chinesestudies #chinesehistory #china #mozi #mohism #chinesephilosophy #墨子 #墨經
New episode! We look at the later Mohists' dialectic, and ask whether it counts as "logic" and why they were so interested in argument technique.
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Drawing of man with white horse
New episode of the History of Philosophy in China! This week we tackle Mohist theories of language and logic, with a brief foray to Gongsun Long's "white horse not horse" paradox.
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Today on #HoPWaG, Karyn and I look at religious themes in Mohism! Major themes include the rejection of fate and defense of sacrificing to ancestral spirits ("ghosts").
www.historyofphilosophy.net/mohism-relig...
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Chinese painting of a war
More Mohism this week as we look at their thoughts on a timely subject: critique of aggressive warfare.
www.historyofphilosophy.net/mohism-war-p...
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Ancient Chinese house
New episode!
"Benefit, Then Stop: Mohism and Impartial Care"
How did the Mohists establish their consequentialist ethic of “impartial care (jian ’ai)”?
www.historyofphilosophy.net/mohism-impar...
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Coming up in a few hours on #HoPWaG: the Mohist consequentialist ethic of “impartial care (jian ’ai)”: was this theory ultimately grounded in the will of Heaven?
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Ancient Chinese weight.
Today on #HoPWaG we start to cover the original consequentialists, who beat Mill and Bentham to this ethical theory by about two millennia: the Mohists!
www.historyofphilosophy.net/mohist-philo...
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