Liu Yuxi is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Liu Yuxi as Chinese writer and philosopher (772-842).
Liu Yuxi was born at Jiaxing in 772. His recorded nationality is Tang dynasty.
Thought in this period moved between the Islamic world, the Jewish communities and the Latin West, and the same texts were argued over in three traditions.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from Tang dynasty matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Liu Yuxi died in 842, aged 70. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
