Mohism
Impartial care for all and common benefit instead of lavish rituals
Key ideas
- Impartial care (jian ai) for all people alike
- Opposition to wars of aggression
- Against costly funerals and court music
- The test of right is benefit to the people
- Early Chinese logic and defensive engineering
Key thinkers
- Mozi (founder) — Chinese philosopher, founder of Mohism, 470 BC–391 BC
Grew out of
- Confucianism c. since 500 BC · Asia
Meanwhile elsewhere
- Pythagoreanism Europe
- Eleatics Europe
- Sophists Europe
- Ancient atomism Europe
- Cynicism Europe
- Platonic Academy Europe
- Peripatetic school Europe
- Pyrrhonism Europe
- Epicureanism Europe
- Stoicism Europe