id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1972 Mohism - Wikipedia .html text/html 5647 940 63 'School of Mo') was an ancient Chinese philosophy of logic, rational thought and science developed by the academic scholars who studied under the ancient Chinese philosopher Mozi (c. It evolved at about the same time as Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism, and was one of the four main philosophic schools from around 770–221 BC (during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods). The "material wealth" of Mohist consequentialism refers to basic needs like shelter and clothing.[5] Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism "are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction; more people, then more production and wealth... Compared with the classical learning and rituals of the Confucians, the speculative metaphysics of Yin-Yang thinkers, and the romantic nature mysticism and literary sophistication of the Daoists, Mohism offered little to attract adherents, especially politically powerful ones."[13] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1972.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1972.txt