Talk:Mohism

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Mohism was the closest of China's philosophic schools to western religious traditions with its belief in a single spirit of the heavens, a strict moral code, and universal love.

That's not obvious at all. I don't know of many Western religious tradition that uses universal love in the same way that Mohists do.

Roadrunner.

Seconded! These one-sentence/paragraph/essay east-west comparisons really don't make sense to me ...

--prat

What may make sense is to say that Jesuits, when discovering Chinese thought, did like much mohism and found many links to their own religious beliefs. (But they made the same links with many other masters...) gbog 17:33, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

It seems that the link to agape is provided without noting the difference between the two - the Mohists suggest that universal love is an impulse, whereas Christianity seems to suggest that agape is a choice. User:Anon

[edit] Mohist's scientific theory

From this referenc article:

2400 years ago, the Chinese Mohist philosophers collected their writings in a book called the Mo Ching. Mohism disappeared, but we can still read this in the Mo Ching:

The cessation of motion is due to the opposing force ... If there is no opposing force ... the motion will never stop. This is true as surely as an ox is not a horse.

Here's a perfectly clear a statement of Newton's first law of motion, 2100 years before Newton's Principia. The Principia was part of a scientific revolution, while the statement in the Mo Ching is largely forgotten.