EALC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mozi, Nepotism, Laozi
14 Nov 2018
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Political system too multipolar, people lost belief in the fact that king of zhou was son of. Religion started cracking, confucius not only person who thought/ believed/ questioned spirits. Social system started cracking, hard to create inventory and keep note of populous labour/ registering people/ calculating productivity of land/ keeping note of the tax. More you expanded your pool, more likely to have administers to carry out necessary tasks. Old ways were decaying, people came to realise that they were in a final death match -> unusually open to new ideas. Confucianism was not the only belief, but the responses were provoked immediately. Mo di ( https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/mozi ) = tattoo master, probably a criminal/ descendant of a criminal, used lots of references to tools that were used by carpenters -> metaphor for encouraging people to standardise people"s practices and beliefs. Mo di"s became known as professional thinkers, members of shared institutional loyalty.
