What kind of school is Mohist? Which school of thought is Mohist

Founded in the Warring States Period, the Mohist school represented the interests of small producers, and its ideological propositions were mainly "love" and "non-attack". There is a difference between the Mohist "contemporaneous love" and the Confucian "contemporaneous love", which advocates love without hierarchical distinctions, and I think this also reflects the Mohist representative of the interests of small producers.

Mohism is a philosophical school in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty of China, one of the hundred schools of thought, and Confucianism represented by Confucius, Taoism represented by Laozi together constitute the three major philosophical systems in ancient China, Mohism is considered to be a branch of Taoism in ancient times, and is deeply influenced by Taoism. Han Feizi, a representative of Legalism, called him and Mohist "the manifestation of the world", while Mencius, a representative of Confucianism, also said that "the words of the world do not belong to Yang (Yang Zhu, a representative figure of Taoism) will return to Mo (Mozi)", which proves the glory of Mohist thought in China. Yang Mo is originally two sides of the coin, so Yang Mo complements each other, but throughout the ages, people have evaluated Yang Mo with Mencius's general way of thinking of "away from Yang Mo", which is unfair.

The Mohist family was born around the Warring States period. The founder is Mo Zhai (Mozi). The Mohists were a well-disciplined academic society, and their leaders were called "Juzi", and their members had to carry out the Mohist ideas when they went to various countries to serve as officials, and the income from them had to be donated to the group.

The Mohist school is divided into the early and late periods: the early thought mainly deals with socio-political, ethical and epistemological issues, and focuses on the wars and turmoil of the present world; In the later period, Mohists made important contributions to logic and began to move closer to the field of scientific research.

The main ideas of Mohist ism are: equal love between people (concurrent love), opposition to wars of aggression (non-offensive), advocating thrift and opposing extravagance and waste (thrift), attaching importance to inheriting the cultural wealth of predecessors (Ming ghosts), and mastering the laws of nature (Tianzhi).

Because of the unique political nature of Mohist thought, and the collusion policy of government and school of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty to "depose a hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone", Mohist thought was constantly suppressed and gradually lost the practical basis for its existence, and Mohist thought gradually became extinct in China. It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China that scholars re-excavated the Mohists from the pile of old papers and found their progressiveness. In recent years, through the efforts of some new Mohists, some beneficial views in Mohist theory have begun to enter people's field of vision.

The sudden disappearance of Mohists has the logic of history, as well as the contradictory factors of its own theory. The Mohists opposed hereditary status and advocated that political status must be achieved by talent.

The propositions are: love, non-attack, non-life, non-music, Shangxian, Shangtong, Tianzhi, famous ghosts, festival funerals, etc. Because they were not tolerated by the imperial power, and the Mohist school itself was also very limited, it disappeared silently.

The Mohists advocated both love and non-aggression, and both love meant that everyone was equal and did not have a class status, and did not take the initiative to engage in struggles and wars, but this did not conform to the social environment at the time, so in the end the Mohist school ended in failure.