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Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy

@inproceedings{Norden2007VirtueEA,
  title={Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy},
  author={Bryan William van Norden},
  year={2007}
}
1. Introduction 2. Kongzi and Ruism 3. Mozi and early Mohism 4. Mengzi 5. Pluralistic Ruism. 
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