Mozi’s Remaking of Ancient Authority
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23198736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miranda Brown (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 143-174 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Mozi as an Evolving Text (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004246201_006 |
| OpenAlex | W2278199319 |
| ISBN | 9789004246201 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This chapter investigates whether the concept of sage-king was in some sense a Mohist innovation. After providing a brief introduction to the major terms and texts, the chapter examines the vocabulary of sagehood in early China. It shows that the paucity of references to the term for sage-kings in the pre-Mohist corpus cannot be explained away as a historiographical illusion, the consequence of accidents of survival. By tracing earlier references to the six figures held up by the Mohists as sage-kings, the chapter demonstrates that, while the Mohists did not invent either appeals to the past or the six figures, they were the first to put distant figures and Zhou founders into a single class of model rulers. Consideration of the evidences suggests that the invention of the ancient sage-kings represents an important but overlooked legacy of the Mohists. Keywords:ancient authority; Mohists; Mozi; sage-kings
Archaeology · Art · Historiography · Literature · Mohism · SAGE · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |