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The text goes on to argue that the doctrine of inclusive care promotes benefit to all and so conforms to the standard set by the benevolent person.
The Mohists could apply their basic standard of righteousness — what "promotes benefit to and eliminates harm from the world" — as a criterion by which to justify a social dao (way), or set of practices and norms, that best promotes everyone's welfare.
As this passage and the capsule summaries of their ten core doctrines indicate, the Mohists saw themselves primarily as a moral, political, and religious advocacy group devoted to realizing what they saw as a morally right society and way of life, one that promotes "benefit" (lì) and eliminates "harm" (hai) for "all under heaven".
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The SPL development approach promotes benefits such as cost reduction, product quality, productivity and time to market (Clements and Northrop 2001).
Besides the best use of nutrients retained in the mineral's crystalline structure, the conjunct application of powder phonolite with various organic wastes promotes benefits to the soil plant system.
Fair publishing models by commercial publishers and open access efforts are needed to promote benefit sharing in knowledge production between north and south.
Rather, the fundamental criterion of right is to promote benefit and eliminate harm to everyone.
The third of the "three models" is also grounded in the norms that tian follows, specifically the norm of promoting benefit to all.
They are alike in that both kinds of ethic stress impartial concern and judgment of what is right in terms of promoting benefit and avoiding harm.
A different ethical guideline might promote "benefit to the world" equally or more effectively, without the stringent demand that everyone be as concerned for others' interests as for their own.
To some extent, then, the norms have a real basis in perceptual experience and in whatever strategies actually work, in practice, to promote "benefit," which the early Mohists understood as wealth, population, and social order.
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