Persona Classification Layer
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Pick two or more historical figures to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension evidence, and shared school influences side by side.
Mozi
Impartial caring, anti-ritualism, and the first systematic consequentialist ethics in world philosophy
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where personas disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid (32 attributes) is shown.
| Attribute | Mozi |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | NDet |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Limited |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | Mystical |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Mozi
Conventional pre-modern Chinese cosmology; the Mozi includes some discussion of how Heaven (tian) intervenes in human affairs through reward and punishment.
Space
Mozi
Conventional.
Matter
Mozi
Substantival; the later Mohist Canons include sophisticated geometric and mechanical discussion.
Observer
Mozi
Embodied moral agent capable of impartial caring; metaphysical agency exists (Heaven, ghosts) but Mohist ethics is fundamentally consequentialist about human welfare.
Energy
Mozi
Pre-modern conventional.
Information
Mozi
Personal continuation through reward and punishment by Heaven and ghosts; the Mohist conception of these is more functional than metaphysical.
Internal Tensions
Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.
Mohism's reliance on Heaven (tian) and ghosts (gui) as enforcers of impartial caring sits in tension with its broadly anti-supernaturalist ethical empiricism; modern readers sometimes set the religious-mythological dimension aside as inessential to the philosophical core, others read it as integral.