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Mozi Research Thought Of "Universal Love"

Posted on:2015-04-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:G Y XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330422983619Subject:Chinese philosophy
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Spring and autumn and the Warring States period, endless fighting between theseigneurs, brought great disasters to the people living. Mo-tse is one of therepresentatives, small production workers feel deeply, and the then social chaos andrulers incompetent deeply hated. In order to change the social evils, Mo-tse advocated"universal love"."Universal love" as the core of Mohism thoughts, the emphasis is to love withoutarithmetic, which advocated Confucius have poor love different, Mo-tse thinks thatpeople love to man should not have different thickness difference, but beyond a bloodrelationship equal love, in order to achieve "universal love" thought, Mo-tse put forward"is still the same,","heaven" and "ghosts"."Is still the same," emphasizing the authorityof the king to the political level, the establishment of "universal love" ideal "," heaven"and" ghosts "is to resort to the first week period of the concept of fate, so that the"universal love "is the ideal character of transcendence. At the same time, Mo-tse putforward the "universal love" thought has certain historical rationality, in the connotationof Confucian "beyond the kiss has surgery, sage," the pattern of difference sequence,with "mutual benefit" principle to the ordinary people seeking desire. But "and witheasy don’t" social ideal is not practical, because the contradiction between the inksystem limits the development of its own,"self" and "he" the tradeoff between thecontradictions; excessive dependence on Wang dear nobility, centralization and to theright of; break the normal procedure thought, caused between theory and reality tension,these factors in a certain sense the Mohism eventually decline.
Keywords/Search Tags:And love, Cross-Lee, Shang Tong, Non-attack
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