mo zi

colspan=2 align=center style="border-top:2px solid"\|
tyle="background:#ccf; border-bottom:2px solid" align=center colspan=2\|Mozi
lign=center style="border-top:1px solid" colspan=2\|(Traditional names)
lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"\|Ancestral name (姓):	style="border-top:1px solid"\|Jiang (Ch: 姜 ; Py: Jiāng)
lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"\|Clan name (氏):	style="border-top:1px solid"\|Mo¹ (Ch: 墨 ; Py: M)
lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"\|Given name (名):	style="border-top:1px solid"\|Di (Ch: 翟 ; Py: D)
lign=center style="border-top:2px solid" colspan=2\|(Modern scholarship)
lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"\|Ancestral name (姓):	style="border-top:1px solid"\|Unknown
lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"\|Clan name (氏):	style="border-top:1px solid"\|Unknown²
lign=right style="border-top:1px solid"\|Given name (名):	style="border-top:1px solid"\|Di (Ch: 翟 ; Py: D)
lign=right style="border-top:2px solid"\|Styled:	style="border-top:2px solid"\|Master Mo
lign=right\|	(Ch: 墨子; Py: Mzǐ)
olspan=2 align=center style="border-top:3px solid"\|¹ Traditionally, Mozi was supposed to be descending from the Lord of Guzhu (孤竹君), himself descending from Shennong the legendary emperor. The descendants of the Lord of Guzhu had the clan name Motai (墨胎) , which later was shortened into Mo.
lign=right \|
olspan=2 align=center \|² Modern scholarship suggests that Mo was not the clan name of Mozi, this clan/family name Mo not being encountered during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, but that Mo was rather the name of the mohist school itself, derived from the name of a criminal punishment (tattooing of the forehead of criminals). The actual ancestral name and clan name of Mozi is not known. It may be that, because Mozi was born in the low classes (which seems established), he did not have ancestral or clan names. During Chinese Antiquity, the vast majority of Chinese people, who were not related to aristocratic families, did not possess ancestral and clan names.

Mozi (ca. 470 BC - ca. 390 BC), whose name is sometimes latinised as Micius, lived in China during the Hundred Schools of Thought of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. He founded the school of Mohism and preached strongly against Confucianism and Daoism. The school did not survive the Qin Dynasty and throughout both traditional and modern Chinese eras was viewed largely in historical terms rather than as a school of thought that was actively being developed. Mozi idealised the Xia Dynasty, and advocated judging ideas and objects through the human senses, by their utility and their antiquity. Mozi denounced offensive warfare, extravagant funerals and music, and tried to replace Chinese family and clanic structure with the concept of bo-ai which can be translated as "impartial caring" or "universal love". In this, he argued directly against Confucians such as Mencius, who argued that it was natural and correct for people to care about different people in different amounts. Mozi, by contrast, argued that one should care for all people equally, a notion that philosophers in other schools found absurd as it would imply no special amount of care or duty towards one's parents and family. He favoured frugality, denouncing music and ceremony as extravagant, and advocated increasing the power of the state through early marriage and a system of rewards and punishments. Mozi also held a belief in the power of ghosts and spirits, although he is often thought to only worship them pragmatically. That is, that heaven, tian, should be respected because failing to do so would subject one to punishment. In this regard, Mozi favors government which imitates his conception of heaven. The Mozi is the name of the philosophical text compiled by Mohists from Mozi's thought.

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