If the Mohists had always fought against Confucianism, what would happen to the world now?

Among the hundred sons of the princes, the Mohist family was known as the two great scholars together with Confucianism during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. <>

The core of Mohist thought lies in both love and non-aggression. What is advocated by love is equality, which is very different from the order of respect and inferiority advocated by Confucianism.

During the feudal period, the emperor was called the Son of Heaven. From the title of the Son of Heaven, we can also see the respect of the emperor's status. In order to reflect the different identities and status of people of different classes, Confucianism also advocates etiquette, such as different levels of ** wearing different official uniforms, and different grades of ** choose different modes of travel when traveling.

This is diametrically opposed to the equality advocated by the Mohists. The idea of equality advocated by Mohists is similar to the equality of all people and a harmonious society advocated by the current society. <>

If the Mohist ideology can continue to coexist, then the feudal society in China for more than 2,000 years of dignity and inferiority is orderly, and I am afraid that it will be impacted by the idea that everyone is equal. The biggest possibility is that the feudal dynasty of imperial power can only exist for a short time, but I am afraid that this is one of the reasons why Mohist thought disappeared in the long river of history.

Secondly, another core idea of the Mohists is non-offensive. To put it bluntly, it advocates that there should be no wars between countries, coupled with the debate ability of the Mohists, if the Mohists can always exist, then the wars of all sizes from ancient times to the present day will only be reduced many times, and once the wars are reduced, the development of the whole society will inevitably move forward. <>

Moreover, the Mo family is the only one in the direction of science and engineering among the hundred sons. Mohist doctrine covers physics, mathematics, etc. Including some practical skills, the Mohists also made great contributions.

It is rumored that the famous Lu Ban is also from the Mo family. It can also be seen that the Mohists have made great contributions to some practical skills.

If the Mohists can survive forever, then the biggest possibility is that China will be a world leader in machinery manufacturing.

The world has no assumptions, though.

In terms of governance, in fact, both concepts will have an impact on the development of the country, and the Mohists should still focus on art, Confucianism and Confucianism will develop together, so that the world will always be centered on China!

What will be handed down will be Mohist revisionism. The world may be in chaos, because the Mohists advocate love and love, and it is difficult to achieve non-aggression.

The core ideas of Mohism are "both love" and "non-attack", which is still slightly different from Confucianism. If the two are divided against each other, there will be a contradiction, one for the common people and the other for the ruling class, which in itself will be difficult to coexist.

If this was the case at that time, then the society of Chi Clan Li may have become completely different now, but history has no ifs. So Sui respects that we should not be too late to guess casually.

There may be no clear ideas, there may be no social institutions, and there will be a very chaotic situation with no clear development goals.

If there is a particularly serious situation, in this case, the country will have a situation of extremely closed code traces, and when the country is governed, there is no way to find a sedan chair and get a particularly reasonable concept of governance, which will also affect the development of the country.

The Mohists could not stand up to the other sects of Xuezi. The main reason is that its proposition is unrealistic, does not start from reality, and is too idealistic, resulting in too high a threshold and too strict requirements for people, but all things are born different, and how can they be traced and rolled oak can be done the same, unlike Confucianism, which is inclusive. As a result, the Mo family was eliminated by history.

The biggest advantage of Confucianism in entering orthodoxy is its inclusiveness. This allows Confucianism to tolerate the teachings of other schools of thought and to use the merits of others for its own use. Accumulation of form and preparation. Over time, Confucianism has developed far more advantages than other schools.

The Mohists believed that without the Mandate of Heaven, human beings could change the environment and become their own masters. This is actually a relatively simple independent free consciousness. Confucianism had a great contempt for manual laborers, while Mohism was rooted in laborers.

From a modern point of view, it is clear that Mohists are more forward-looking and open-minded, and their promotion effect on society will be greater. Confucianism itself has a certain limiting effect on the development of science and technology. Therefore, many people say that if the Mohists defeat Confucianism, then the development of science and technology in China today will reach unattainable heights.

Now the world will be divided into two factions, one is the Mohist school and the other is the Confucian school, and then the two are incompatible with each other, and there will be no cultural prosperity today.

There will be such a confrontation in the world today, and there will be many people who will learn from these two schools.

As far as Mohist thought as a whole is concerned, I wrote only 12% according to the subject matter and the tendencies of my own imagination. Based on this content, I can't say that the Mohists are irresponsible to themselves and others. The reasons are rather verbose, let's talk about the conclusion first:

The good thing is that there will be two "Americas" in modern times. Super Rome in the East, Little Rome in the West. But the trouble is that there may have been two kinds of Inquisition in ancient times, one Catholic and the other Mohist.

As for the scientific spirit and industry of speculation, hehe, whether there is a Mohist or not, our science is very developed. Oppose their own timetable for the development of various disciplines and sciences. It's quite complicated.

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Anyone interested can ask after 90-00 about the history of science and technology in Zhihu any of the philosophy of science majors. Don't look for middle-aged and elderly people born in the post-80s and above and people who think they are smart, they can't guarantee the answer. In order to avoid saying that I am avoiding the question, I will only quote a short passage from Mou Zongsan to illustrate the ins and outs (the quotation does not mean that I agree with Mr. Mou Zongsan's other scholarly views):

Before and after the May Fourth Movement, people who spoke of Chinese thought took a fancy to Mozi and wanted to do somersaults in Mozi. There is nothing else to say. There is neither interest nor understanding.

In the original Chinese academic thought, there was very little that fit into the Western philosophical system. <>

At the time, it was thought that only Mozi was closer to American experimentalism. In fact, the real Mohist spirit, they can't either. He went on to talk about the pen-and-ink controversy.

So Gaishi contains a little bit of superficial physical knowledge, but also a little bit of nominalism and epistemology. Although these theories are extremely superficial and vague, and are not easy to understand, in the minds of the pre-Qin princes, these alone were enough to attract Chinese scholars who had tasted Western philosophy of science. Therefore, the study of Mozi is actually a Mohist controversy, which became popular for a while.

Study the demeaning of words, correct exegesis, and compare and append them. In fact, we cannot find the true scientific spirit and logical scale from here. <>

I think the world is likely to be particularly chaotic today, because the gap between Mohism and Confucianism is very large, and it can be said that it is polarized.

I think there should be two sects in the world now, and these two sects are still fighting, and the people are in equal harmony.

Then the world may now be divided into two factions, and the two factions will become opposed, and the social atmosphere will not be so peaceful.

No, Mohism is Moism, it is the Mohist doctrine founded by Mozi, and Confucianism is Confucianism, it is the Confucian doctrine founded by Confucius.

Mozi was the only peasant-born philosopher in Chinese history who founded the Mohist doctrine. Mohist had a great influence in the pre-Qin period, and was called "Xianxue" along with Confucianism. The views of "and love", "non-attack", "Shangxian", "Shangtong", "Tianzhi", "Ming ghost", "non-life", "non-music", "festival funeral" and "festival use" were put forward, with love as the core, and thrift and Shangxian as the fulcrum.

He founded a set of scientific theories with geometry, physics, and optics as outstanding achievements. During the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought contended, and it was known as "non-Confucianism and ink".

Representative figures of the Mohist family: Mozi, Bird Slippery, Tian Jiu, Meng Sheng, etc.

Representative figures of Confucianism: Confucius, Mencius, etc., more famous masterpieces, Analects, etc.

No. Mohist and Confucian are two schools of thought.

No, they are two different ones.

If Mohists and Confucianism had been fighting each other since ancient times, there would be no fusion today. There may be a trend of polarization, with Mohists on one end and Confucianism on the other. There are clear schools of thought.

If the Mohists have always fought against Confucianism, the world is still the same now, but the Mohists are likely to be isolated, after all, during the Han Dynasty, Confucianism had become a major sect!

Mohist has a unique thought, which has a very important contribution to the war at that time, Confucianism is more of an ideology, forming a phenomenon of one article and one martial arts, if it has been divided into courts, the war will not end, only the combination of ideology and culture can eliminate the war as soon as possible. Otherwise, the world would have been even more war-torn at that time.

Mozi had studied "Confucianism" earlier, but later went independent and organized his own school, the mainstream of which was to love and not attack, and to be virtuous and economical, and soon gathered a large number of people.

At that time, Mozi put forward many views that were different from Confucianism, and its ideological connotation was very unique and novel at that time, but unfortunately, after Mozi's death, the Mohist family declined in internal friction.

The Mohists were known as the first scholars in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and Confucianism was just an ordinary thought at that time, far less powerful than later generations, so the Mohists could compete with Confucianism.