Harmonious Society. Mohist Thought

From time immemorial mankind has been pursuing harmony within cultured society. During the lifetime of Mo-tse, the great philosopher of the common people, war was a way of life in China. In this Pre-Qin period of China's history, Mo-tse promoted the idea that all people in a socialist society should love one another equally.It was called "Universal love" and it meant that neither prejudice nor favoritism would be shown, but instead, there would be fair and equal treatment for all. This text tries fore the person analyze the foundation of research up, pass to the Mo-tse harmonious society thought content and outside postpone to carry on comprehensive research, display thought and its influence of Mo-tse from the new angle.The Mo-tse puts forward harmonious society thought, its purpose be for resolving how to carry out equal, how moderate person's relationship with person, how resolve the gap between rich and poor, and how stop war and violence to carry out everlasting peace etc. harmonize with the real realization society of ideal future. What Mo-tse describe harmonizes a social blue print, main body in his ten greatest assertions: Universal love; Condemnation of offensive war; Exaltation of the Virtuous; Identification with the Superior; Economy of expenditures; Simplicity in funerals; Condemnation of music; Anti-fatalism; Will of heaven; On ghosts. These assertions embodied a concentrated reflection of people for harmonious the society fine life of desire.Though Mo-tse's harmonizing social thought is the very lowly and period outcome of the productivity level, but viewing things in their totality, these assertions of Mo-tse still have dispassion but deep content, and because what it represent is the effective demand which is placed in the common people of social first floor and actual benefits, as a result have larger representative and widespread meaning. In the our country set up the socialism diapason the process of the society, The Mo-tse diapason society thought can also for we resolve face of the social problem provide some way of thinking or enlighten, infusing into a beneficial contents for the harmonious socialist harmonious society in contemporary of China.