Xu Gan, courtesy name Weichang (偉長), was a Chinese philosopher, poet and official of the late Eastern Han dynasty, and one of the "Seven Scholars of Jian'an".
Writers born in the 170s 6
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Xu Gan, courtesy name Weichang (偉長), was a Chinese philosopher, poet and official of the late Eastern Han dynasty, and one of the "Seven Scholars of Jian'an". He is best known in the West for his discourse on the relationship between the names and actualities, preserved in his treatise Zhonglun (中論), or "Balanced Discourses".
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Writers
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Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 170 to 218 · aged 48
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