Mo Di
470-391 BC · Hundred Schools · Prominent
Mozi founded Mohism, the first school to take on Confucius. Why should a stranger's child matter less to you than your own? He said it should not, and built his teaching around jian'ai, care spread across everyone alike, against a loyalty that stops at the clan. Lavish funerals and wars of conquest failed his test, whether people end up fed and safe, which he took from Heaven's own will. His followers worked on logic and siege defense.
Signature
The position Mozi is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Allegiance
- strongly leans Global
- Ethics Basis
- Utilitarian Calculation
Positions on the 6 axes the sources answer
- Meaning
- strongly leans Inherent (94 on a 0–100 scale from Constructed to Inherent)
- Order
- leans Vertical (21 on a 0–100 scale from Vertical to Horizontal)
- Polity
- leans Illiberalism (25 on a 0–100 scale from Illiberalism to Liberalism)
- Ethics
- leans Ends (20 on a 0–100 scale from Ends to Means)
- War
- mildly between Pacifism and Militarism (50 on a 0–100 scale from Pacifism to Militarism)
- Allegiance
- strongly leans Global (100 on a 0–100 scale from Local to Global)
14 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Mozi refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Theology
- Non-Trinitarian Monotheism
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods? - Government
- Epistocracy
What is your ideal form of government? - Highest Good
- Peace
What is the highest good? - Knowledge
- Pragmatic Test
What is the ultimate foundation of knowledge? - Ethics Basis
- Utilitarian Calculation
What is the ultimate basis of ethics? - Agency
- Libertarian Free Will
What is the nature of human agency and freedom? - Time
- Linear Progressive
What is the fundamental shape of time? - Authority
- Divine Revelation / Collective Will
What is the legitimate source of authority? - Law
- Divine Law
What is the ultimate source of legitimate law? - Human Nature
- Tabula Rasa
What is human nature? - Primary Bond
- Humanity
What is your primary bond and loyalty?