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Cheng Hao (Mingdao)

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Cheng Hao (Mingdao) · 1032–1085

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“Chinese doctors called paralysis "not-humane" — the unfeeling limb — and Cheng Hao built a whole ethics out of that word: to be good is to feel the world as your own body.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 81

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“The humane person forms one body with all things — and selfishness is a kind of numbness, a limb of the world that has stopped feeling.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 81

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