
Mozi by Burton Watson
Mozi (fifth century B.C.) was an important political and social thinker and formidable rival of the Confucianists. He advocated universal love-his most important doctrine according to which all humankind should be loved and treated as one's kinfolk-honoring and making use of worthy men in government, and identifying with one's superior as a means of establishing uniform moral standards. He also believed in the will of Heaven and in ghosts. He firmly opposed offensive warfare, extravagance-including indulgence in music and allied pleasures-elaborate funerals and mourning, fatalistic beliefs, and Confucianism.
Burton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. He received the PEN translation prize in 1981. His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, and The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, all published by Columbia. This book presents Watson's renowned translation of a Chinese philosophy classic in pinyin romanization for the first time.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9780231130011 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231130015 |
| Titre | Mozi |
| Auteur | Burton Watson |
| Série | Translations From The Asian Classics |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Paperback |
| Éditeur | Columbia University Press |
| Année de publication | 2003-07-14 |
| Nombre de pages | 140 |
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