ABSTRACT
Lu Jia (d. 178 B.C.E.) was an influential Chinese scholar-official during the first decades of the Han dynasty. Lu was most notable for his attempts to integrate concepts such as wuwei and yinyang into the Confucian mainstream, thereby setting the stage for the synthetic approaches of thinkers such as Jia Yi and Dong Zhongshu in the following century. Lu developed a theory of a mechanistic heaven first presented in Xunzi’s Discourse on Heaven (Tianlun) into a naturalistic description of Confucian ethics.
