Founding the Mohist School
Established a tightly organized community of followers bound by strict discipline and shared purpose. They studied logic, optics, fortification, and ethics. It was more like a guild than an academy.
Mozi challenged Confucius on nearly every point. Where Confucius taught graded love (family first, then outward), Mozi argued for universal love: care for every person as you care for your own family. He rejected elaborate funerals, music, and ritual as wasteful. He organized a tightly disciplined community of followers who traveled to defend small states against aggression, often arriving with siege-defense equipment they had built themselves. His school rivaled Confucianism for two centuries before fading.
Established a tightly organized community of followers bound by strict discipline and shared purpose. They studied logic, optics, fortification, and ethics. It was more like a guild than an academy.