Yang Chu
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Yang Chu (370-319 BC), was allegedly a Chinese hedonistic philosopher. An early alternative to Confucian thought, Yang Chu's surviving arguments, perhaps corrupt, appear primarily in one chapter of the Lieh Tzu.
In Lieh Tzu it is said that Yang Chu believed that self-preservation, or "wei-wo", is the proper way to conduct one's life. Mencius, another Chinese philosopher of the time, believed this to be selfishness and felt threatened by this philosophy.
Reference
- Graham, A.C., Disputers of the TAO: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China (Open Court 1993). ISBN 0812690877
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