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First, the ideas of Mohism were no longer suitable for the national conditions of the time, and second, the rulers at that time were more respectful of Confucianism.

Because during the Han Dynasty, the state promoted Confucianism, so that the Mohists did not have any opportunities for development.

Because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism, people at that time went to learn Confucianism, so the Mohist family gradually disappeared.

With the development of the dynasty, some representatives of Confucius's famous Confucian doctrine appeared one after another, but the representatives of Mohist doctrine were few and few, and finally drowned in the long river of history.

The internal reason is that practicality is greater than theory and difficult to inherit, and the emphasis on science and technology is out of touch with the needs of the times, which also weakens its theoretical innovation, affects the inheritance, and is rejected by the mainstream schools and does not conform to the interests of the ruling class.

The leader of the Mo family has his own love, hatred, hatred and contradictions, and has not passed on his craftsmanship.

This is because of the reason for development, different dynasties need different ways of development, and some of the ideas of the Mohists do not conform to feudal politics, so they are lonely.

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.

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.

Third, the most important reason is that with the development of the times, the main "voice" class in the society of the Qin and Han dynasties has already become a new feudal class. Most of the members of the Mo family are people from the bottom, and in this case, there will be no opportunity to express their voices at all, and they will be oppressed and suppressed by various upper classes. In the face of a series of setbacks, the organizational foundation of the bamboo slips was disintegrated, so after the Qin and Han dynasties, the Mohist school gradually declined and finally disappeared.

First of all, in the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang made the act of burning books and pit Confucianism, so it was very important that scholars and books were destroyed. Secondly, in the Han Dynasty, there was Dong Zhongshu's idea of overthrowing the hundred schools of thought by Confucianism, so Moxue and other schools gradually withdrew.

Because since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed Confucianism, except for Confucianism, the remaining schools either declined rapidly or combined with Confucianism to barely survive.

The rapid decline of the Mohist school after the Qin and Han dynasties was due to the political system at that time, and the political system at that time conflicted with some views of the Mohist school, so the Mohist school declined rapidly after the Qin and Han dynasties.

Because their genre is relatively low-key. Only the clan people who were closer to their blood relatives promoted their own teachings, and did not collect disciples and grandchildren from the people of the world, so in the Han Dynasty, they eliminated others and benefited themselves.

Because the Han Dynasty practiced the doctrine of respecting Confucianism, other schools of thought had long been hidden.

Qin Shi Huang, who seized the world by force, valued Legalist thought, and the Mohists had to make way for the rising Legalists, which suffered a lot of impact.

By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu advocated "deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", and Confucianism became orthodox, so the Mo family made matters worse and gradually disappeared.