Yang Chu
(c. 440-360 B.C.) Was a great Taoist whose teachings, together with those of Mo Tzu, “filled the empire” and strongly rivaled Confucianism at the time of Mencius (371-289 B.C.) His main doctrines of following nature and preserving life and the essence of being have been distorted as hedonism and egoism in the work bearing his mme (Ch. VII of Lieh Tzu, c. 300 A.D.; Eng. tr. by A. ForkeYang Chu’s Garden of Pleasure). — W.T.C.