Chapter 70 Mojia and Love

Li Changding's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, and a rare trace of anger surged in his heart, "The love between parents and relatives is naturally love, but this is a small love, it is a private love, Mozi also talks about the filial piety of the father and the son, and also talks about the love of the relatives, but he puts the love on the love of the family, and takes the love as the great love, and the great love pushes out the righteousness, and in the face of the righteousness, everyone is equal, which is the inner core of the love!" ”

"As for Mencius, you said, 'There is no king and no father, and he is a beast.'" Ha! Is the difference between man and beast because of the king and the father? Monkeys also have fathers, monkeys also have monkey kings, and humans and monkeys are not equal! ”

"In my opinion, in terms of advancement, the love of the Mohists is more than the so-called 'benevolence' of Confucianism!"

"You talk nonsense!" The butcher, who was leaning over the woman in black, was furious and opened his mouth to reprimand.

"So excited, it seems that you come from a family, and you are one of those families with a long history." Seeing that the butcher was so excited, Li Changding was blessed to his heart, and he suddenly guessed.

Like the previous Celestial Empire, the main world from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, to the beginning of the Qin and Han dynasties, the Mohist doctrine suddenly weakened, collapsed, and became almost extinct, on the contrary, Confucianism has been widely spread, although it was persecuted and suppressed in some special periods, but the Confucian vein is endless, after several tribulations, it can always rise, widely spread, and has been spread to the present.

In the compulsory education of the empire, most of the basic language taught was Confucianism-related articles, and subtly, Confucian culture was the mainstream culture of the main world at this time.

Moreover, the children of the family were more influenced by Confucianism than ordinary families in the empire, and the more historic the family, the more Confucianism influenced the members of the family. Because the family was originally based on Confucianism. Yes, Li Chang will definitely have this kind of speculation.

"Nonsense! I'm just an ordinary person, but I'm not a child of a family like you, born with jade, born with gold! The butcher retorted.

"Really? Are you a believer in Confucianism? Li Changding said casually, but he had already affirmed the birth of the woman in black in his heart, after all, the fifth-order human immortals, thinking of returning to pure yang, and the idea of moving was not casual.

But Li Changding didn't dwell too much on the birth of the woman in black, and guided the topic back to the main line: "I said that the Mohist love is further and better than the Confucian benevolence, but you obviously don't agree." ”

"Of course!"

"Okay, then let's start with Confucian benevolence."

"First of all, let me make it clear that the benevolence of Confucianism and the love of the Mohists are both pan-love, or a kind of fraternity, and they are both glorious and great aspects of human nature."

"That's nature." The butcher said lightly.

"The Confucian concept of 'benevolence' is based on the love between relatives, and by extension, benevolence. Confucian benevolence is also a form of fraternity. ”

"The man who is benevolent will establish people if he wants to, and reach people if he wants to reach them."

"Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

The butcher memorized a few Analects, and finally concluded: "The benevolent one loves others." ”

Li Changding smiled indifferently when he heard this, and then said: "Benevolence is naturally good, but in Confucianism, their benevolence cannot be carried out to the end. Because of benevolence and kinship love, between the two, Confucianism attaches more importance to kinship love. "The Mean" has a saying: benevolent, people. Kissing is great. Once benevolence conflicts with kinship love, Confucianism's choice is obviously kinship and selfishness. The best proof is the sentence in "Zi Lu": 'The father is hidden for the son, the son is hidden for the father, and it is directly in it'. ”

Book 69 of the General Dictionary tells the story that A had an adopted son named B. When B grew up, he killed someone and told A, who hid him, but was later captured. Then ask what crime A should be sentenced for? Then, according to the meaning of "Spring and Autumn", the father is hidden for the son, and it is 'etiquette' for the father to cover the son, and finally A is not guilty. ”

According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty * Xue Xuan, Prime Minister Xue Xuan was falsely accused by Shen Xian and dismissed from office, and his son Xue Kuang bribed the assassins and beheaded Shen Xian at the palace gate. After Xue Guo was arrested, he should be punished by 'abandoning the city' according to the law, but Tingwei believed that according to the meaning of 'Spring and Autumn', he was convicted with his original intention. For the Father was angry at the sight of blasphemy, and there was no greater evil. As a result, Xue was only sentenced to three to five years in prison for 'Wanwei Chengdan' County. ”

"Do you need me to list the events in history?"

"On the contrary, the Mohists are both loving, taking righteousness as the greatest, paying attention to 'upholding justice and repelling personal grievances', and "Shangxian" even proposes that 'unrighteousness is not rich, injustice is not expensive, injustice is not close, and injustice is not close', and he does not give him high-ranking officials and generous gifts to unrighteous people, and does not get close to him. Selfless! ”

"That's what the people of the Mo family proposed, and they did the same."

There is a record in "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period* to Go to Selfishness": "The Mo family giant came to Qin, and his son killed someone, and the king of Qin has pardoned him." But the Mo family giant said: 'The Mo family's law, the murderer dies, and the wounder is punished, so it is forbidden to kill and injure people. It is forbidden to kill and injure people, and the righteousness of the world is also. For the sake of justice, he still killed his son according to the law of the Mo. Can Confucian scholars do these things? ”

"But there are also many Confucians in history who can kill their relatives with righteousness, and they are selfless!" The butcher defended himself.

"Oh, let's not talk about whether these Confucians killed their relatives for the sake of benevolence, or for the sake of loyalty to the king. If it is really for the sake of benevolence and righteousness, it is already the Mohist idea of love. Because the theoretical basis of Confucian benevolence is kinship love. Charity is only the extension of affectionate love. ”

"Charity and love are essentially the same, both are fraternity. However, in the process of actual operation, when faced with some special circumstances, completely different choices will be made, which is caused by the difference in the fundamental ideas of Confucianism and Mohistism. And all of this will eventually have different social impacts. ”

"It's naturally not right to be close to each other." The butcher acknowledges the shortcomings of Confucianism.

Li Changding smiled when he heard it, remembering the social evolution in the history of the main world, in order to make the imperial society agree that it was wrong to hide relatives, it took at least a hundred years, during which there were various polemics and all kinds of public opinion, and the latecomers looked really interesting.

"But." The butcher suddenly changed his words and retorted eloquently: "You have to admit that the benevolence promoted by the love of relatives advocated by Confucianism is more in line with reality!" Human nature is selfish, it is always easier to love yourself and your family, and it is more practical to do this and then love others! The Mo family has love, righteousness is great, and it sounds good, how many people can do it! It's so unrealistic! ”

"Haha! Ha ha! It's so unrealistic! It's so unrealistic! Li Changding suddenly laughed, "It's too unrealistic!" You've finally got the point! ”

"Let's talk about Confucianism first, love your family, and then love others, from near to far, it's a wonderful formula, but how many people have done it? How many people stop loving their family members and always have no love for others? I don't think there's really a causal relationship between loving your family and loving others! Do you help those elderly people because you think of your parents? Do you think of your family when you donate money to those who are seriously ill? Do you think of your family when you go to donate blood? ”

"I'm afraid it may not be! People's motivation for charity should be more in the heart of compassion and compassion, as well as social responsibility and social morality, and this social responsibility and social morality is actually what the Mohists call 'righteousness', which is the Mohists advocate love and love! ”

In fact, although no one in the Overworld raised the banner of Mohism to revive the Mohist doctrine, many of the statements in mainstream thought and the resulting social system and charities are highly consistent with the Mohist doctrine. Just because human nature is complex, selfishness is the nature of human beings, and 'love' is also one of the nature of human beings. ”

"Mozi's idea of love is definitely not his personal romantic fantasy, it is completely in line with the reality of human nature!"

At this time, Li Changding couldn't help but think of reading novels before, and Fang Xin once sighed that charity is just a game for rich people in their spare time. This is clearly incorrect. In this world, there are always some people who are not rich, but they are willing to contribute to the society, all kinds of charitable donations, all kinds of funding for the poor, and do their part. For example, the security guard who kept donating, the cleaner who adopted street children, and the good man who used to be tired of doing charity. (These are real-life examples.) ）

This is the love in Mozi's mouth.