The historical status of Mozi in the Mohist family. The historical position of Mozi

Mozi, named Zhai, Han nationality, is a Taoist person. Founder of the pre-Qin Mohist school in China. He was a well-known thinker, scientist, and human rights activist during the Warring States period in China.

c. 468 B.C.-376 B.C.). He once put forward the views of "both love" and "non-attack", founded the Mohist theory, and had "Mozi".

A book has been handed down. Moxue had a great influence at the time, with Confucianism.

It is also called "Xianxue".

Mozi is ink. The founder of the family, the only work left by the Mohists to future generations is the book "Mozi", which discusses the status and influence of the Mohists, mainly to study the status and influence of Mozi's philosophy.

During the Warring States Period, Confucianism and Mozi were both "Xianxue", and Mozi's status and influence almost endangered the spread of Confucius's philosophy.

Mencius said: "The words of Yang Zhu and Mo Zhai are all over the world.

If the words of the world do not return to Yang, they will return to ink.

The way of Yang and Mo is endless, but the way of Confucius is not.

After Mencius Tengwen reigned in the Qin and Han dynasties, the Mohist family died out, and the status and influence of Mozi's philosophy were second to that of Confucius of Confucianism and Laozi of Taoism.

The mainstream of Mozi's philosophical thought is materialism.

He "blazed a new trail for the development of human understanding, and contributed many repentances and repentances with vitality and scientific value: on the knowability of the laws of the development of things, on the unity of name and reality, words and deeds, and on will and merit, on the objectivity of the criterion of truth, on the role of sensory experience and social effects on cognition, on the two concepts of 'force' and 'life', and on the preliminary ** of certain forms of thinking and laws of thinking, all of which are pioneering feat in the history of cognition."

Mozi's philosophy influenced Confucianism, Legalism, and Huang Laoxue, which developed from pre-Qin Taoism, and Taoism, which metamorphosed.

The political philosophies of Zheng Liangzheng, who were "Shang Xian" and "Shang Tong", were absorbed by Meng, Xun, Shang, and Han, and indirectly influenced later generations through them; Its materialist epistemology was inherited, transformed, and carried forward by Xunzi and Han Fei; His religious views of "Tianzhi" and "Ming Ghost" were refined by Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty into the theory of "Heaven and Man Induction"; Its social ideal of "love and love" was reshaped into the Confucian idea of Datong by the Book of Rites and Rites; Its political propositions and social outlook became one of the theories of Huang Laoxue in the early Han Dynasty, and was transformed into the theory and doctrine of Taoism in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In modern times, Western capitalist countries invaded China, and a large number of Western studies were introduced, and Mozi's philosophy was reborn after more than 2,000 years of silence.

The reformist philosophers Tan Sitong and Liang Qichao, the bourgeois philosophers Hu Shi, the proletarian revolutionaries Chen Duxiu and Cai Hesen, and Lu Xun, the greatest writer in the history of modern Chinese literature, all drew nourishment from Mozi's philosophy.

They may use the scum of Mozi's philosophy to explain and understand Western studies; or after the baptism of Mozi's philosophy, create their own philosophical system; Or with the traces of Mozi's philosophy, accept Marxism, and embark on the revolutionary road.

In short, Mozi is the founder of the Mohist school, the most important representative of Mohist, and a great materialist philosopher in ancient China.

Mozi's important position in the history of Chinese philosophy cannot be replaced by anyone.

Both before and after the disappearance of Moxue, Mozi philosophy has influenced the course of Chinese philosophy from beginning to end.

Because it was the Mohist school that declined, Mozi's own ideas have never been extinguished, and have long been merged into the long river of Chinese philosophy.

It contributed to the prosperity of China's intellectual circles.