Mo Zi （about 475 B.C.——396 B.C.） was an important Chinese thinker and philosopher. He founded a new philosophy called Mohism. Mo Zi, along with the majority of his students, were handicraftsmen and often discussed the issue of labor. They placed great emphasis on labor and the result of labor. In Mo Zis opinion, man is different from other animals. Other animals have fur and feathers as clothes, claws, and paws as shoes, grass and water as food and drinks, and can thus survive without labor. But man is different. Only by working can he be clothed and fed, and it is only through labor that he can survive. Therefore, it is a must that everyone works. Is it right for a person to steal fruits from another s orchard？ Of course it is wrong, because in doing so, he has tried to possess the fruit of other people s labor without doing any work himself. Man can only enjoy the result of labor by doing the work himself. It is immoral to gain without pain. Mo Zis main thoughts are discussed below.
　　Firstly, Mo Zi believed in "universal love." This means that people should love each other. Like Confucius and Mencius, Mo Zi believed that the greatest virtue one can have is to love others, but his idea differed from the "partiality of love" put forth by Confucius and Mencius. Confucius and Mencius held the belief that people love their own parents first, then the parents of others; that they love their own immediate family members before loving others family members. They believed that people love their parents and their family members more than others parents and relatives. This is known as the "partiality of love." But Mo Zi argued that there should be no partiality in loving people. People should love other nations as much as their own nation; they should love others parents as much as their own parents; they should love others as themselves. Mo Zi believed that love has to start with oneself. People should love others first before they can receive love from others; people should love the parents of others, then others will love their parents; people should love the nations of others first before others can love their nations. If there is love between people, families, and nations, there would be no fights and wars in the world.