The purpose of this paper is to examine the aspects of knowledge socialization in Mohism under the theme of self-awareness and self-reflection.
Knowledge has evolved gradually from the form of primary information accumulated as humans have survived in...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the aspects of knowledge socialization in Mohism under the theme of self-awareness and self-reflection.
Knowledge has evolved gradually from the form of primary information accumulated as humans have survived in the natural world to abstract, higher dimensional forms. In this regard, knowledge is the result of personal discovery and awareness, and it is socialization that spreads to the public sphere and is accepted socially. Socialized knowledge is called ideology. In this sense, ideology has two characteristics. First, ideology is a socially shared knowledge. In other words, ideology is a structure of knowledge composed of social needs. Second, ideology is self-aware and self-reflective in that social demands are reflected. In other words, if the ideology is separated from the social demands, it loses its social basis and inevitably declines or disappears.
This paper focused on the problem of the practice of knowledge and institutionalization of knowledge in the aspect of the theory of Mo-tzu’s Heavenly theory, human theory, social theory. In this process, this paper deduced the reflection and awareness of the Mo-tzu on the previous Confucius thought, and the clue of the awareness and reflection of the Mo-tzu on the future Meng-tzu and Hsun-tzu.
Mohism is characterized by its formation, development, decline, and disappearance in East Asian philosophy. It is easy to examine the phenomenon of socialization of knowledge. In particular, Mo-tzu defined 仁, one of the key words of Confucius thought, as differential love according to the relationship. Mo-tzu analyzed the cause of all the problems that were prevalent at the time because of the differential tendency of Confucianism. In addition, Mohism showed the process of decline and disappearance as rapidly as its emergence and spread, and the conditions of knowledge disappearance that Mohism shows were aggregated in two ways: the loss of the specificity of the knowledge system and the loss of the social foundation of ideology.
In short, Mohism in the subject of knowledge is a useful model that shows the process of formation, development, and decline and disappearance of knowledge between personal context and social context, and this series of processes can be called 'socialization of knowledge'. In addition, reflection and awareness of society by intellectuals is essential for the socialization of knowledge, which involves the process of tensions, confrontation, integration and communication between personal awareness and social needs. Mohism proves historically that a process of inevitably declining or disappearing when one knowledge system and ideology lose their own identity and can not accommodate the social demands of contemporary society.