Yang Zhu

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yang Zhu (Chinese: 楊朱/杨朱; pinyin: Yáng Zhū; Wade-Giles: Yang Chu; 370-319 BCE), was a Chinese philosopher during the Warring States Period. An early ethical egoist alternative to Mohist and Confucian thought, Yang Zhu's surviving ideas, known as Yangism, appear primarily in the Chinese texts Huainanzi, Lüshi Chunqiu, Mengzi, and possibly the Liezi and Zhuangzi.