Tongxin slogan

The concept of "freedom, equality and fraternity" comes from the rise of the bourgeoisie in the Renaissance, the Religious Reform and the Enlightenment, and contains the core of a series of western cultures such as humanism, Christian spirit and rationalism. Among them, the main core of "fraternity" comes from the Christian spirit.

Christianity preaches that "God loves the world", so the world should also love the world, and all believers in the world are brothers and sisters. Before God, everyone is born of creation. Therefore, in the religious sense, everyone is equal, and loving others is just like loving your brothers and sisters. The source of all this is that God created man. Since everyone is God's creation, everyone is the son and daughter of the "father". Love for people comes from God's teaching, not from other factors such as blood relationship.

As mentioned earlier, Mohism could not find the direction to break the concentric social structure in the blood society, so it turned to superhuman strength to prove the rationality of its "universal love", and thus produced theories such as "God's will" and "Ming ghost".

But fundamentally speaking, Mohist's "universal love" does not lie in transcendental power at all, or "Tian Zhi" just puts on a more acceptable coat for his theory.

The fundamental purpose of "love" is "mutual benefit". As mentioned earlier, Mohism is a collection of people who have left the blood society. Mencius criticized Mozi for saying that "the father of man lies in his father". We know that the biggest guarantee for maintaining an organization is the same interests. In ancient society, blood relatives naturally had the same interests, but Mohism obviously had no blood power, so it sought. To understand this bond, we can compare it with the "blood alliance" of later generations. This bond is more similar to feelings such as loyalty, and it has always maintained a stable alliance from universal love to mutual benefit ~