Collide And Blend

"The Axis Period", German philosopher Karl·Jaspers named the period in world history, is just the corresponding period in China—the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods. This is the most splendid time in Chinese cultural history. Special conditions of society and economy then resulted in that prospect: Learning was flourishing, and lots of schools of thought contended.The Confucian school, which representative figure was Confucius, and the Mohism school, which representative personage was Mo Zi, were the most outstanding two. Their strength and impetus were great, and their apprentices were many, but they were antagonistic to each other and they debated badly. On many important things then, their opinions were different: Confucianists on the one hand acknowledged the mandate of heaven, and insisted on understanding it, shrinking with it, on the other hand they hardly talked about ghosts and God, but Mohists initiated the God'and ghosts'will, however simultaneously they were against the theory of destiny; Confucianists suggested to govern a state by means of "Li"(ritual) and music, but Mohists thought they were superfluous, and they said that if we had over-indulged ourselves in music, political affairs would be neglected and producing would be influenced ; Confucianists said people should hold a luxurious and long funeral when a relative died ,this was the essential factor of "Li(ritual)", but Mohists said people should be economical, so it was unnecessary ; Confucianists attached "Yi"(moral righteousness) and underestimated "Li"(gains), but Mohists thought they were both important, and they said we did anything just because of its interest; Confucianists called for benevolence, which feature was that we should love people with no dissimilarity, and Mohists claimed loving others as equals.However, being the two branches of Chinese cultural river, the two schools had common grounds on a series of things about the culture as well as about human: About human ourselves, they both lain stress on cultivating people's moral character and practice, both underlined that human was the subject in the world; About human...