Self-Awareness in the Mozi
A Survey into the Implicit Foundation of Some Core Ideas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19024892 |
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| Authors | She Shiqin (0000-0003-4587-5479, Twitter (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 126-139 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Chinese Literature and Thought Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2768-3524 • E-ISSN: 2768-3532 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/27683524.2023.2264673 |
| OpenAlex | W4392175718 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Instead of focusing on the authorial intention of the Mozi, this is a speculative and comparative project aimed at determining the philosophical, logical, metaethical, and ontological assumptions of some Mohist ideas. Particular attention is levied at the core idea of “equal love for all” (jian’ai). These ideas are analyzed through the lens of the Heidelberg School’s distinction of prereflective self-awareness and reflective self-consciousness. Prereflective, predualist self-awareness, which depicts human nature as potentiality, constitutes the implicit character of jian’ai. In this sense, Mozi’s criticism of Confucian “graded love” (ren’ai) argues from a position of prereflective self-awareness, while any reflective claim a priori as the foundation of a doctrine (favoring filial love that functions as the Confucian premise), inevitably falls into self-contradiction in theory and praxis
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| Highly cited | No |
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