Redpill me on Mohism.

>>3002098
Ultimate fucking lads
>Chinese warlord is besieging city
>random mohist scholar turns up
>tells him about 50 ingenious ways to rip it's defences asunder
>"fuck thanks buddy, let's tear this thing open"
>mohist: "I should mention that 15 of my comrades are inside that city advising its soldiers, each knows a hundred ways to thwart every tactic I just described"
>Chinese warlord sighs and breaks siege

>>3002113
So what were they? Like military strategists or moral philosophers?

>>3002122
Moral philosophers with extreme focus on statecraft of pure equality before law, they were very practical so naturally branched out into the crafts (siegcraft) that preserve a state as much as those that improve one

>>3002122
Engineers and mathematicians that used their knowledge to advance siege and war machines. Basically, their philosophy was to stop war by making every fort unsiegable.
Also moral philosophy somewhere about universal care and good rule is measured by how much material wealth and food every citizen has

>>3002098
Muh three gauges

>ghosts watch you do everything and punish you for jerking off

>>3002153
Sounds like mohists would've been in favor of mutual assured destruction.

>>3002122
They are both. There are basically two branches of Mohism schools: One focus on pursuing knowledge and logic(墨辯派); One focus on maintaining peace which often heavily involved defensive military operations(墨俠派).

>>3002165
Mohists are proto-communists with faith.

>>3002170
Pursuing knowledge and logic sounds interesting. Is it fair to say it's some kind of proto science? How far were they away from discovering the scientific method?

>>3002174
Yes, they're quite fond of technology and science, Mozi himself had successfully done one of earliest pinhole camera experiments in the world.

>>3002153
>their philosophy was to stop war by making every fort unsiegable.
Well they seemed to have failed pretty hard.

>>3002098
That's not what redpill mean.