The Way:

The significance of The Way for Mozi is to incorporate it into the Mozian Way and empower the self as a result.

• According to Mozi The Way is defined as something morally right (yi or renyi).
• Our society will loosely follow this interpretation of The Way particularly through practicality and achieving order.
• The Way as a means of promoting public good, in terms of social and political justice.
• Additionally, moral rightness is not always compatible with traditional virtues. Thus, caution is advised when looking backwards for “good” traits.
• Jian’ai will be of the utmost concern for our society in terms of impartial caring or concern.  This will be incorporated into our society as we are largely be driven by economical factors and require a balance between such and maintaining human relationships.

1. In particular, the “Mohists are concerned [with] offering a practical solution to the chaos (luan) of the world so as to restore it to good order (zhi)” (Mozi, chapter 4).

2.  Mohist ideology states that “impartial concern might be stated as the injunction that people ought to be concerned for the welfare of others without making distinctions between self and others, associates and strangers” (Mozi, chapter 7).