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PHILOSOPHER

Dong Zhongshu

179 BC - 104 BC

Dong Zhongshu

Dong Zhongshu (Chinese: 董仲舒; Wade–Giles: Tung Chung-shu; 179–104 BC) was a Chinese philosopher, politician, and writer of the Han dynasty. He is traditionally associated with the promotion of Confucianism as the official ideology of the Chinese imperial state. He apparently favored heaven worship over the tradition of cults celebrating the five elements. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dong Zhongshu has received more than 144,714 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Dong Zhongshu is the 478th most popular philosopher (down from 460th in 2019), the 349th most popular biography from China (down from 330th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Chinese Philosopher.

Dong Zhongshu is most famous for his "Doctrine of the Mean" which is a Confucian text that is an attempt to reconcile the two major schools of thought in Chinese philosophy, Confucianism and Taoism.

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140k
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59.06
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
25
Languages Editions (L)
4.43
Effective Languages (L*)
2.64
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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Dong Zhongshu ranks 478 out of 1,081. Before him are Alasdair MacIntyre, Plutarch of Athens, Ahmad Sirhindi, Zhiyi, Thomas Cajetan, and Agrippa the Skeptic. After him are Philodemus, Karl Löwith, Karl-Otto Apel, William of Champeaux, Martha Nussbaum, and Gaetano Mosca.

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Alasdair MacIntyre
1929 - Present
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 472
Plutarch of Athens
350 - 431
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 473
Ahmad Sirhindi
1564 - 1624
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 474
Zhiyi
538 - 597
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 475
Thomas Cajetan
1469 - 1534
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 476
Agrippa the Skeptic
100 - 100
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 477
Dong Zhongshu
179 BC - 104 BC
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 478
Philodemus
110 BC - 35 BC
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 479
Karl Löwith
1897 - 1973
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 480
Karl-Otto Apel
1922 - 2017
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 481
William of Champeaux
1070 - 1121
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 482
Martha Nussbaum
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 483
Gaetano Mosca
1858 - 1941
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 484

Contemporaries

Among people born in 179 BC, Dong Zhongshu ranks 1. After him is Sima Xiangru. Among people deceased in 104 BC, Dong Zhongshu ranks 3. Before him are Jugurtha and John Hyrcanus. After him is Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus.