Philosopher

Hui Shi

Overview

Hui Shi (Chinese: 惠施; pinyin: Huì Shī; Wade–Giles: Hui4 Shih1; 370–310 BCE), or Huizi (Chinese: 惠子; pinyin: Huìzǐ; Wade–Giles: Hui4 Tzu3; "Master Hui"), was a Warring States period Chinese philosopher, and, according to the Lushi Chunqiu, a prime minister of the Wei state (Liang) said to have written a code of laws. A representative of the School of Names (Logicians), he is famous for ten paradoxes about the relativity of time and space, for instance, "I set off for Yue (southeastern China) today and came there yesterday."

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Hui Shi

• Zhuang Zhou
• Zhuangzi (book)
• Gongsun Long
• Deng Xi

Ideas Hui Shi discusses

• Springer Science+Business Media
• Zeno of Elea
• Infinitesimal
• Zhuang Zhou
• Warring States period
• School of Names
• Mohism
• Yan (state)
• Zeno's paradoxes
• Sinology
• Relativism
• Mozi (book)
• Atomism
• Dordrecht
• A. C. Graham
• Indexicality

Place in the tradition

Part of Chinese philosophy.

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