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Mozi 'universal Love' And Build A Harmonious Society In China

Posted on:2008-08-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M X JuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360215972005Subject:Ideological and political education
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Content abstract:The pre-Qin period, Mozi universal love thought establishes a new flag.Mozi universal love thought has the profound politics, the economic and the cultural origin.In politics, the social system is being in the slavery to seal in the organic vicissitude, this provided the temperate soil to the universal love of the Mohist school; In the economy, at that time the society was occupying Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States transition period, the society appeared the momentous change, the productive forces' development, the production tool innovation, has urged the productive relations internal large scale adjustment, the old slave system about to collapsed, the new feudalism was breeding the germination;In the culture, Mozi places the time of hundred school of thought and receives the hole culture inevitably the infiltration.At the same time, the Mohist school is also same with other pre-Qin thinkers.It receives the ancient civilization gradually influencing, specially influences and the infections of birth zhu Low place culture and Yao Yushun the ancient culture .From this profits and the critique, the universal love thought of the Mohist school finally has been formed.Mozi advocated universal love and handing over benefits.He advocated the life whole love that has no difference, The universal love exits in opposes with the junction leaves. It originally means universal love to all worlds the human, the human whole. Mozi expands it for broad love to world all that has the intrinsic life essence thing until the entire universe, possessing all including the nature to have the life connotation thing.But,the love has the principle very much, universal love doesn't include the rob human and so on that harm other people and the society .And this kind of love is mutual as loves oneself.It is the love to the life, the whole mutual love.This kind of love displays in the ways and the method as practices moral culture, honors capable officials, must attacks, the non-life, thrifty and so on . As a result of historical and social class's limitation as well as own existence question,universal love thought of Mohist school after the Qin and Han Dynasty declines gradually.But generally speaking, as one kind of theory viewpoint,the universal love thought ,comparing with simultaneously the generation of other school of thought ,has its own historical value.It distinguishes between in the love of Confucianist.It broke in the clanlaw blood relationship system to cherish one's relatives and advocated establishing the non-difference universe's love.It also connected universal love with benefits and summed up righteousness directly to the advantage and established the first utilitarianism ideology in the Chinese history .At the same time, the Mozi thought took advantage of the world and eliminating evil of the world for the starting point ,advocating altruistic, selfish, the favorable world.Although Mozi universal love thought aims at the reality to embark, but under that time the social background also was only one kind of social Utopia -like tentative plan and it's unable to realize.Along with our country socialism modernization advancement unceasing advancement, how to face the new turn of China and the West culture collision and inspiration in the 21st century, how to coordinates the important question which various aspects the benefit relations, all these have become the question to us to have to solve and the complete heavy historical responsibility. An important work we need to do is excavates in the Chinese nation morals inheritance the outstanding ingredient, and bringing honor the science to construct the socialist morality system.
Keywords/Search Tags:universal love, harmonious society, significance
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