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Date of birth and death unknown. A Chinese thinker from the Warring States period. Or his books. A native of Chu (one theory says Jin), his name was Ko. He was a guest of the Qin's Prime Minister Shang Yang, and is said to have fled to Shu after Shang Yang was executed by cartwheel. In the section on the abbreviated miscellaneous works of various sons in the "Arts and Literature Journal" of the "Book of Han," he lists 20 chapters of the "Shizi." It is said to have originally been over 200,000 words. It was lost in the Southern Song dynasty. However, some fragments were added by scholars of the Qing dynasty. The titles of the compilations that are known based on this include Enlightenment, Precious Words, Four Rules, The Hall of Understanding, Division, Enlightenment, Forgiveness, Governing the World, Benevolence, Wide, Shakushi, Place of Doing, Divine Power, Wide, Stopping Chushi, and Rule of the King. It explains the principles in harmony with the theories of the Mohist and Confucian schools.

[Rinatsu Ito December 14, 2015]

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生没年不詳。中国、戦国時代の思想家。またはその著書。楚(そ)（一説に晋(しん)）の人、名は佼(こう)。秦(しん)の宰相商鞅(しょうおう)の客で、商鞅が車裂(くるまざき)の刑にあうや、蜀(しょく)に逃亡したと伝えられる。『漢書(かんじょ)』芸文志(げいもんし)の諸子略雑家の項に、『尸子』20編を載せる。もと20万言余といわれる。南宋(なんそう)に至って亡失した。ただし、清(しん)朝の学者によって逸文が編補されている。これをもとに知られる編名は、勧学、貴言、四儀、明堂(めいどう)、分、発蒙(はつもう)、恕(じょ)、治天下、仁意、広、綽子(しゃくし)、処道、神明、広沢、止楚師(しそし)、君治などである。墨家と儒家の説の調和のうえに義を説いた。

［伊東倫厚　2015年12月14日］

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