Mohist And The Chinese Ancient Science And Technology

Mohist thought in science and technology manifested science and technology unified principle and technology.Mohism aimed not only at developing pure theories,the departure and order of Mohist 'study was "developing advantages and eliminating disadvantages for the word."Mohist enriched and developed the ancient Chinese science and technology,and affected many famous ancient scientists . Mohist thought in science and technology mainly reflected in Mohist Canon,which involve mechanics, opitics, geometry ...etc,involved thephysiology,psychology,....etc. Extensive range of Mohist research and advanced level of Mohist theory were to be placed in with science ancient in Greece,at the same time, Mohist thought in science and technology was connected with the various schools of thought and their exponents during Pre_Qin,the second saint of Confucianist Menzi severliest criticized Mohist school inherited some Mohist thought of science and technology,Zhuangzi also had systematic evaluation to Mohist. Mohist affected Taoism deeper. Mohist affected Lusheng ,Liuhui in the period of Wei Ji,Shenkuo in the period of Song absorbed Mohist thought in science and technology.The values in science and technology of Mohist Canon reflected the natural science princle that overstepped pragmatism value, on the other hand it firstly emerged to lay stress on the science reasonableness unified with value of utilitarianism on the ancient chinest technology history. Mohist thought of science and technology was embryo that preceeded the selfconscious reasonableness activity of the Chinese ancient science and did science experiment with the technology practices for foundanation ,Mohist regarded nature as the independent known...