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This is the first of two concepts that are said to be “one unit” and unified into the “myriad things” in a view critiqued in “On the Equality of Things.” A teacher in the Zhuāngzǐ describes the “pipes” of two lowlier concepts (15[1])before explaining that hearing the pipes of this concept is key to meditation. (15[2])This concept names China’s earliest intellectual history, which follows the Lièzǐ in a larger work and enumerates ten paradoxes attributed to Huì Shī. The most fundamental standard in Mohist ethics is the “will” of this concept. A kind of (*) dào named for this concept governs the natural world and is contrasted with human dào and great dào. The last chapter (-5[2])of the Zhuāngzǐ is titled for an imagined community named for this concept, which Warring States philosophers called “all under [this place].” For 10 points, Chinese rulers justified (10[2])their legitimacy by appealing to what place’s “Mandate”? ■END■

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