This essays focalized on the criticism of the Mohists about the Confucianism from the former Mohists to the later Mohists. The preceding studies on the Mohists are centered on the texts of the former Mohists. But those studies are limited in the point...
This essays focalized on the criticism of the Mohists about the Confucianism from the former Mohists to the later Mohists. The preceding studies on the Mohists are centered on the texts of the former Mohists. But those studies are limited in the point of view that the Mohists` sphere of the action was ranged from after-Confucius to the first half period of the ancient chinese civil wars. The historical consciousness of the texts of the former Mohists was not corresponded with the Confucianism, Taoism nor Legalism, and that was embodied in Mohists` Canons. And they criticised on the Five Elements conflicting theory, the typical view of historical circulating. That should be appraised as an expression of the advanced historical view, because they accepted the concept of changing history in the base of Mohists` Canons, the historical view of Mozi. But the Mohists had no more practical theory, nor the complete historical evolution, as a theoretical base of the alteration Law. That was mostly derived from the characteristic aspects of their singularity community, because they were subjected in the system of nation, as a safeguard community, in spite of they had a strict rule in their own community. And their Law or Rule, as a reaction of Confucian Liyue(禮樂) and a norm of society, had an appeal to the ordinary people of that time, but was difficult to be a theoretical base of changing period, because that was the manifestation of God. The Legalist`s advanced historical view should not be asserted as a unique product of Legalism, because their thought was influenced by the view of preceding King in the Mohists or the other School`s historical view. As a result, Mohists view of Law and historical view should be related with the theory of contradiction of Hanfei.