'The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world'The MzC is among the founding texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition, presenting China's earliest ethical, political, and logical theories. The collected works introduce concepts, assumptions, and issues that had a profound, lasting influence throughout the classical and early imperial eras. MzC and his followers developed the world's first ethical theory, an ...