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Available
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Collection
Publication
Columbia University Press (1963), Paperback, 140 pages
Description
The thoughts and writings of this important fifth century B.C. political and social thinker -- and formidable rival of the Confucianists -- are presented here in English translation.
User reviews
LibraryThing member antiquary
Interesting expression of the Mohist school which preached brotherly love and the simple life (justly criticizing Confucian spending on rituals), but also practiced defensive war.
Striking that this theistic love ethic died out in China while similar ideas dominated in the west.
Striking that this theistic love ethic died out in China while similar ideas dominated in the west.
LibraryThing member xuebi
Burton Watson is the scholar for translating accessible versions in English of the Chinese classics, and with the Mo Tzu, he again delivers. Though often repetitive and somewhat bland in rhetoric (though this as Watson says is part of the original text and not just translations), the Watson
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translation makes this lesser-known philosopher easily accessible for both scholar and lay-man alike. Show Less
Language
Original language
Chinese
Physical description
140 p.; 7.8 inches
ISBN
0231086083 / 9780231086080
Local notes
Updated title: Mozi