Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed the Hundred Schools of Confucianism, the rest of the families, except for the Taoists, have all survived and perished. The Mo family, which is as famous as Confucianism, was also vigorous, and the theory and practice were very in place.
Mozi is ambitious and wants to completely change Zhou's social system. But at that time, people all respected the ancients, so Mozi's proposition borrowed from the ancients and said that the ancients were like this.
Whether Mozi is from Shandong or Henan is not clear. At that time, the influence of the Mo family was very large at that time. Readers who are not Confucians belong to the Mo family if they do not belong to Confucianism. The Mo family is organized, and the Confucian gate is unorganized. The leader of the Mojia organization is Juzi. Juzi is "big old", "sir". It is passed down from generation to generation, that is, from sage to sage.
Although Mozi advocates "non-offensive", he is good at war. Among Mozi's writings, there are many war books. He wants to destroy war with war. The Mo family also studied "famous science", that is, logic, which is about the way of speaking, called the "Ink Classic", which the Mo family reads. Mozi, politics, military, science, practically higher than Confucius. Unfortunately, he was cursed so badly. Mencius cursed Mozi's "simultaneous love" as a fatherless, i.e., a beast. In the Han Dynasty, the official family was very afraid of Mozi, because the Mo family was organized. Therefore, we must eliminate the Mo family. At this point, Mozi's situation is dangerous. A group of religious and organized sects, which court is not jealous?! Confucianism, on the other hand, pays attention to the "order" of the respect and inferiority of the father and son of the monarch, specifically the individuals of benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom, faith, forgiveness, loyalty, filial piety, and compassion, of which "benevolence" is the theoretical core of Confucianism, and the ancient rulers established a unique set of social morality and political system around this benevolence, which was the highest ideological standard at that time, and also had an indelible impact on future generations. From the temple to the rivers and lakes, everything is unified, and other doctrines such as the Mo family have no market and gradually decline. Mozi's book was also unread. By the end of the Han Dynasty, Taoism had arisen (note: not Taoism). The Daoist teachers received Mozi's books into the "Pursuit of Zang", which merged Mozi's books with Taoism. Fortunately, most of Mozi's books were preserved. Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty had to study the Warring States Sons before he found out the Mozi from the Daozang and understood mozi. In the past, when I read Mencius, I thought that Mozi was very bad. Mencius's view "misled" the readers into thinking that the Mo family was a flood beast.
Mozi, known as Zhai, was a contemporary of Confucius and Zhuangzi. Some say that he is a Song national, and some people say that he is a Tengguo person. At least we know that Mozi served as the Grand Master of the Song Dynasty and was a descendant of the noble Muyi. Mozi was a highly learned man, and a scholar who was relatively close to the small producers of workers and peasants, and he boasted that "there is no matter of the king on the top, and there is no difficulty in cultivating the peasants below", and he is a scholar who sympathizes with "the people of agriculture and workers". Therefore, the Nobles did not like the Mo family, but they were deeply favored by the lower-class laborers.
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