Mohism
Evaluates political conduct through public benefit and concern that is not confined to kin or status. It criticizes aggressive warfare and wasteful expenditure.
Foundational doctrines
- Impartial concern
- Public benefit
- Merit-based office
- Opposition to aggression
Disagreement and variation
Its demands for common standards and ordered authority can conflict with pluralist judgment or the special value people give to family relationships. Mohist administrative hierarchy coexists with impartial ethical concern; translating it into modern axes is especially uncertain.
Numerical positions in the interactive model are editorial reference estimates, not scientifically validated measurements.