TY - CHAP
T1 - Wang Yang-ming's ethics of war
AU - Twiss, Sumner B.
AU - Chan, Jonathan K L
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/5/15
Y1 - 2015/5/15
N2 - Mozi was an early critic of the tradition of thought associated with Confucius, and founder of a religious and social activist community. The main source for Mohism the thinking associated with Mozi and his followers, the Mohists is the eponymous Mozi. Modern critics believe that the received corpus was probably written over an extended period of time throughout the Mohist community's existence, possibly taking final shape only in the early imperial age well after the demise of the community. The Mohists' main intellectual attention was focused on offering arguments against military aggression, and relatedly, on the distinction between unjustified military aggression and justified punitive interventions. Mohist doctrine has a broadly consequentialist structure specific ways of conduct or policies are moral if, when put into practice, they promote the world's welfare, and immoral if they harm the world. This chapter concludes with some brief remarks regarding the nature of the Mohist writings on war.
AB - Mozi was an early critic of the tradition of thought associated with Confucius, and founder of a religious and social activist community. The main source for Mohism the thinking associated with Mozi and his followers, the Mohists is the eponymous Mozi. Modern critics believe that the received corpus was probably written over an extended period of time throughout the Mohist community's existence, possibly taking final shape only in the early imperial age well after the demise of the community. The Mohists' main intellectual attention was focused on offering arguments against military aggression, and relatedly, on the distinction between unjustified military aggression and justified punitive interventions. Mohist doctrine has a broadly consequentialist structure specific ways of conduct or policies are moral if, when put into practice, they promote the world's welfare, and immoral if they harm the world. This chapter concludes with some brief remarks regarding the nature of the Mohist writings on war.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Chinese-Just-War-Ethics-Origin-Development-and-Dissent/Lo-Twiss/p/book/9781138824355
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960220780&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315740706-10
DO - 10.4324/9781315740706-10
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84960220780
SN - 9781138824355
SN - 9781138729216
T3 - War, conflict and ethics
SP - 153
EP - 178
BT - Chinese Just War Ethics
A2 - Lo, Ping Cheung
A2 - Twiss, Sumner B.
PB - Routledge
ER -