墨子 / Mozi

墨子 / Mozi appears in 30.孟子：战国愤青的赤子之心 as a major rival presence in the intellectual world around [[Mengzi|孟子 / Mencius]]. The episode’s point is that Mencius did not speak from an uncontested Confucian mainstream; teachings associated with Mozi and [[YangZhu|杨朱]] were influential enough that Mencius’s insistence on renyi looked like an active intervention.

This page is source-scoped. It records Mozi as part of the [[WarringStatesPeriod|Warring States]] thought market rather than summarizing Mohism as a full system. In the episode, Mozi mainly helps explain why Righteousness Over Profit / 义利之辨 and Mencius’s defense of [[Confucius|孔子]]’s path had polemical stakes.

Connections

• [[Mengzi|孟子 / Mencius]] - rival intellectual context.
• [[YangZhu|杨朱]] - paired rival teaching in the source.
• [[WarringStatesPeriod|战国时期]] and [[JixiaAcademy|稷下学宫]] - broader thought-market setting.
• Righteousness Over Profit / 义利之辨 and Early Confucian Resistance Politics / 早期儒家的反抗政治 - concepts clarified by Mencius’s rivalry with non-Confucian alternatives.