Mo Tzu was China's first true philosopher. He was the originator of Mohism. Mohism was an influential philosophical, social, and religious movement that flourished during the Warring States era (479–221 BCE) in ancient China. Mo Tzu pioneered the argumentative essay style and constructed the first normative and political theories. One of his argumentative essays was that “artistic pursuits such as music was not useful to society, and that people should not be forced to pay-with their tax dollars-for