秦果显

Qin Guoxian: public information is limited, and he is known only to have three works extant—Report to the County of Lanark, A New View of Society, and Revolution in Human Thought and Practice—usually classified under politics and philosophy. Judging from the titles and categories, his writing concerns how social institutions are organized, the transformation of human thought, and social reform at the practical level, with a discursive and programmatic character aimed at setting out proposals for social change to a general readership. The works are related in subject matter, revolving around views of society and the practice of human thought, and presenting ideas in the forms of reports, expositions, and revolutionary proposals. As his dates, nationality, and life experience are not clearly recorded, his intellectual background and historical place await further investigation; the available material confirms only the number of works attributed to him and their general intellectual direction, and readers may consult the original texts for his specific arguments.