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Photo of Wai-Wai Chiu

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

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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.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/mohist-diale...

#chinesephilosophy #mohism #logic

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Drawing of man with white horse

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.

historyofphilosophy.net/series/class...

#philsky #mohism #whitehorse

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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...

#mohism #chinesephilosophy #philsky

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Chinese painting of a war

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...

#philsky #mohism #justwar

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Ancient Chinese house

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...

#mohism #philsky #podcast #consequentialism #HoPWaG

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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?

#philsky #mohism #chinesephilosophy

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Ancient Chinese weight.

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...

#philsky #mohism #chinesephilosophy #podcasts

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