Perspective voyage · Mohist texts, 5th–3rd century BCE

Mozi and the Mohists — Public standards, inclusive care, and office

Can a standard checkable by all restrain a ruler's arbitrariness, or can it also suppress disagreement?

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What makes power legitimate and rules fair?

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The received Mozi is a multilayered compilation of anonymous material from roughly the fifth to third centuries BCE, not a finished book securely attributable to Mozi alone.

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Mozi
Transmitted Mohist corpus; Chinese Text Project · Classical Chinese text with James Legge historical English translation
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Mohism
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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350 BCE · Approximately 5th–3rd century BCE

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Mozi and the Mohists — Public standards, inclusive care, and office

What makes power legitimate and rules fair?

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The Mozi is a Mohist compilation with multiple periods and voices; no single composition city is inferred.

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