"Rather, humans are shaped by the rewards and punishments in their environment." (Bryan W. Van Norden, Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy)
Nothing truer could be stated from an evolutionary psychology POV.
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I just can't get on board with people spelling "Mohist" (as in 墨家) as "Moist."
I'm never going to read this, for example, as anything other than a slightly damp criticism of the Confucian use of fate.
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Fun Chinese class today. We started by talking about priority seats (博愛座 bó ài zuò - literally "expansive love seats") in the subway. We ended up by wrestling with the difference between Confucian 博愛 bó ài (expansive love) and Mohist 兼愛 jiān ài (universal love).
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