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Rationally Speaking #223 - Chris Fraser on "The Mohists, ancient China's philosopher warriors"

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The Origins of the Moist Movement

Moism emerges as a social and political movement, somewhere in the middle of the 5th century BC. Their charismatic teacher who they're organized around is a person named Moat D. It's not really clear what his background is but he seems to have been from the artisan class. Most of the texts that you would read from early China and much of the thought was produced by higher social classes.

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