SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

sage kings

  • Mozi – Chapter 49

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    This chapter collects Mozi’s dialogues with lords and craftsmen. It advocates tailored state policies, condemns aggressive wars, stresses righteousness over profit, and argues teaching universal love outweighs manual labor’s limited gains.

  • Mozi – Chapter 28

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    This chapter holds Heaven’s will the absolute moral gauge. It criticizes people’s moral double standard: punishing petty crimes yet glorifying interstate wars, and stresses universal love as the only righteous path conforming to Heaven.

  • Mozi – Chapter 27

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    This chapter holds Heaven the supreme source of righteousness. It states Heaven favors universal mutual aid and punishes warmongering partiality, using sage kings and tyrants as examples, and treats Heaven’s will as the objective standard to judge all conduct.

  • Mozi – Chapter 25

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    This chapter rejects lavish burials and long mourning. It argues they drain wealth, cut population and breed chaos, cites sage kings’ simple tombs, and advocates minimalist funerals to benefit both the living and deceased.

  • Mozi – Chapter 20

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    This chapter advocates cutting useless luxury spending to double national wealth. It sets utilitarian standards for daily goods and promotes early marriage to boost population, criticizing wars and heavy taxes that reduce residents.

  • Mozi – Chapter 16

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    This final Universal Love chapter refutes critics, contrasting biased partiality with impartial universal love. It uses hypothetical rulers, ancient sage records and reciprocal virtue to prove universal love practical, the only path to social peace.

  • Mozi – Chapter 10

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    Chapter Ten (Exalting the Worthy III) continues Mohist meritocracy. Mozi criticizes rulers who value kin or looks over talent, uses archery analogies, cites sage kings, and stresses elevating capable commoners to enrich, stabilize and unify the realm.

  • Mozi – Chapter 9

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    This second chapter on exalting worthies reinforces meritocracy as core governance. Mozi puts forward three empowerment essentials, cites sage kings’ promotion of humble talents and tyrants’ nepotism failures, and takes Heaven’s impartiality as his theoretical basis.

  • Mozi – Chapter 8

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    This Mohist chapter centers on exalting worthy talents as the core of governance. Mozi advocates meritocracy, promoting capable men regardless of humble origins, backed by sage kings’ precedents. He argues enriching and empowering virtuous officials brings national wealth, population growth and stability.