Ancient China · Philosopher

Gongsun Long 公孫龍

Attested BC 320 - BC 250

Passages: 2
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Gongsun Long was a Philosopher.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 320 to BC 250 公孫
Strongly inferred · Book of Song 62, passage 120
BC 320 to BC 250 而趙亦有公孫龍為堅白同異之辯，劇子之言；
Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 74, passage 88

Key source chapters

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 74 Biographies of Mengzi and Xun Qing 1 passage
Book of Song, Chapter 62 Volume 62 Biographies 22: Yang Xin, Zhang Fu, Wang Wei 1 passage

Places and affiliations

Polity Zhao 趙 · Relation Associated with
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 74, passage 88

Learning and skills

Skill debates on hard and white and sameness and difference 堅白同異之辯
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 74, passage 88

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 74Biographies of Mengzi and Xun Qing · 1 passage

而趙亦有公孫龍為堅白同異之辯，劇子之言； Zhao also had Gongsun Long, with his debates on "hard and white" and "sameness and difference," as well as the sayings of Master Ju;

Book of Song, Chapter 62Volume 62 Biographies 22: Yang Xin, Zhang Fu, Wang Wei · 1 passage

雖假天口於齊駢，藉鬼說於周季，公孫碎毛髮之文，莊生縱漭瀁之極，終不能舉其契，為之辭矣。 Though one had the eloquence of the Qi persuaders, the ghost lore of late Zhou, Gongsun Long's hair-splitting disputations, or Zhuangzi's boundless paradoxes, one still could not justify this appointment.