战国社会思想与墨子宗教观的内在矛盾

Intrinsic Contradiction between Social Thoughts and Mozi's Religious View during Warring States Period

战国是周礼乐文化彻底崩溃的时期。墨子批判了西周宗法等级化宗教,力图创建适应平民需要的宗教形态。战国时期地域国家形成,广阔的地域交往需要更普遍化的理论学说。在诸子们建构的各种学说里,墨家尤其具有普遍主义形态和工具化特色。这也深深地影响到墨子的宗教创建,使墨子的宗教思想渗透了理性与信仰的矛盾。

In the Warring States era, the Western Zhou dynasty's culture of the ritual and the music collapsed thoroughly. Mozi criticized the ancient religion of the Clan and Grade System, and tried to build a civilians' religion. He practiced as an artisan, advocated 'universal love' and built a new God with general equality. But the Mozi'religious view was filled with the contradiction of rationality and faith, so that it failed to form a new religion.