Mozi on ethics
Mozi (c. 470–c. 391 BCE) approaches ethics within Mohism. He defended impartial concern, merit-based office, frugality, and evaluating teachings by their social benefit. Systematically, the teaching links impartial care, utility, peace into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets ethics most directly—useful for searches such as “mozi quotes on ethics.”
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What did Mozi say about ethics?
The quotations below are the archive’s curated answer: English renderings selected for clarity and attribution, not a complete corpus.
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