{"product_id":"mozi-basic-writings-9780231130011","title":"Mozi: Basic Writings","description":"Mozi (fifth century B.C.) was an important political and social thinker and formidable rival of the Confucianists. He advocated universal love--his most important doctrine according to which all humankind should be loved and treated as one's kinfolk--honoring and making use of worthy men in government, and identifying with one's superior as a means of establishing uniform moral standards. He also believed in the will of Heaven and in ghosts. He firmly opposed offensive warfare, extravagance--including indulgence in music and allied pleasures--elaborate funerals and mourning, fatalistic beliefs, and Confucianism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBurton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. He received the PEN translation prize in 1981. His translations include \u003ci\u003eThe Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan, Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century, \u003c\/i\u003e all published by Columbia. This book presents Watson's renowned translation of a Chinese philosophy classic in pinyin romanization for the first tim\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318553710866,"sku":"9780231130011","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_198dc0c9-f47e-425f-933d-051ab3b7d441.jpg?v=1727557377","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mozi-basic-writings-9780231130011","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}