Rationally Speaking #223 - Chris Fraser on "The Mohists, ancient China's philosopher warriors"
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The First Consecutiveist Ethics
The subtitle of your book was the first consequentialist. Can you explain what that means? Right. Well, it is to my knowledge, looking at Chinese, Indian, and European philosophy, this seems to have been the first school of thought who wholly embraced a consequentialist ethics. And when we talk about right and wrong, are we talking about actions? Are we talking about policies? There's various sorts of things that we might evaluate as right or wrong to flesh out the particular brand of consequentialism we're dealing with here.
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