The Legalists spun off from the Confucianists during the Warring States period. They paid too much attention to names and neglected the reason for paying attention to ritual. The more extreme among the Mohists became Taoists, who completely denied reality and advocated a return to nature.
到了戰國劇變，從儒家衍生出法家，名分講的過份的結果，反而忽略了為什麼講禮；墨家則激化成道家，反對現實變成徹底否定現實，而主張回歸自然。