29. Ghost Writers: the Mohists on Religion

Did Mozi tell people that ghosts exist and that we can change our fate because he thought these things are true, or because it would be beneficial for people to believe them?

• E.L. Harris, “Mohist Naturalism,” The Philosophical Forum 51 (2020), 17–31.

• S. Lowe, Mo Tzu’s Religious Blueprint for a Chinese Utopia (Lewiston: 1992).

• F. Perkins, “The Moist Criticism of the Confucian Use of Fate,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 35 (2008), 421–36.

• R. Taylor, “Religion and Utilitarianism: Mo Tzu on Spirits and Funerals,” Philosophy East and West 29 (1979), 337–46.

• B. Wong and H. Loy, “War and Ghosts in Mozi’s Political Philosophy,” Philosophy East and West 54 (2004), 343–63.