Ep. 313: Mozi's Political Ethics (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On selections of the central Mohist text, from ca. 430 B.C.E., with guest Tzuchien Tho.
Mozi claims that we should regard everyone on the same level as our family and believe whatever doctrines will be most beneficial to the people.
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to be doing a live show in New York City on April 15th at 7pm, |
| 0:05.1 | discussing Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. You can purchase tickets either to come in person |
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| 0:23.1 | You're listening to the Partially Examine Life podcast by some guys who are at one point |
| 0:26.5 | to set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it. |
| 0:29.3 | Our question for episode 313 is something like what is righteous action? |
| 0:33.6 | We're looking at moism, the main school containing with the Confucians, |
| 0:37.9 | in the ancient Chinese Warring States period, reading the selections of Mozi, |
| 0:42.0 | excerpted by Burton Watson for the 1953 Basic Writing's book, |
| 0:45.8 | The Original Text from Around 430 BCE. |
| 0:48.5 | For more information, please see PartiallyExamineLife.com. |
| 0:51.5 | This is Mark Linsomire, |
| 0:52.9 | turning my back on the concerns of the Sage Kings by saying that there are no such things as ghosts |
| 0:57.6 | in Madison, Wisconsin. This is Seth Pascon, absolutely righteous in Austin, Texas. |
| 1:02.9 | This is Wes Allen, trading in my birds for boats and Cambridge Massachusetts. |
| 1:07.9 | This is Dylan Casey using my compass and square in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:12.8 | And our special returning guest. |
| 1:14.4 | I am Tuchento, optimistic about rationality in Bristol, United Kingdom. |
| 1:21.0 | Nice. I think you were in Germany last time we talked to you for Confucius. |
| 1:24.0 | You just reminded us six years ago. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah. Crazy. |
| 1:27.2 | I've since become much more of a podcast consumer. |
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