The two Confucians Mencius and Xunzi held opposing views about human nature. Mencius believed that human nature is good. Every person is born instilled with four main virtues; Righteousness‚ Ritual property‚ Wisdom and Benevolence. These virtues will only develop fully if it is nurtured and put to effect appropriately. He also claimed that those who are not virtuous have been “corrupted by the environment” . He believes that “Individual effort was needed to cultivate oneself‚ but one’s natural
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Chinese Conceptions of “Rights”: From Mencius to Mao—and Now One interpretation is “moral vacuum”. Some western journalists and scholars describe the contemporary protests as symptoms of a pervasive“moral vacuum” in which Chinese supposedly find themselves. They depicted Post-Mao China as a society where Marxism has been discredited‚ but—absent a Western appreciation of individual natural rights—Chinese have no moral compass to guide their changing and confused lives. In other word‚ We Chinese
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“Seek and you will find‚ Neglect and you will lose them” -Mencius This is one of the famous words of Mencius (371-288 B.C.E) who is a famous Philosopher in China. I have read that Mencius believed that‚ “Nature is Good and not evil”‚ which I believe is true. It’s us all up to us whether we do good things or bad. Sometimes people do ‘bad things‚ but ended up thinking what they did was wrong and they will feel regret. I strongly believe that people know the difference between the good and the bad
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society would disintegrate into chaos and violence. Mencius‚ another Chinese scholar and fellow student of Confucius‚ believed the opposite. He thought that human nature is ultimately good and that people learn to be evil from various influences and experiences in their life. After reading both essays‚ it was extremely difficult for me to decide which author I agreed with. Hsun Tzu’s essay was a direct criticism of the essay written by Mencius and there were some very good examples of why he believed
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stories‚ there are many gods who were greatest educator or philosophers as well. Such as the founder of the theory of Taoism‚ Lao Zi‚ he is the highest-level god in the religion. Moreover‚ great educators and historical people like Confucian and Mencius or the hero Yue Fei or Guan Gong‚ they are also the gods in the religion. Taoists are seeking immortality. From the foundation of Taoism in 2 AD‚ Taoists have been seeking the best way to longer their lives. Taoists don’t care about what will happen
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Chinese women have less dependency on men than Indian women but there is still a great dependency on men by women in both societies. In China‚ women have higher degree of expression than women in classical India society. In the Mother of Mencius‚ written by Mencius
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The 250 years between 475 and 221 BC was called the Warring States Period because the Zhou dynasty split into . These states fought alot until the Qin dynasty conquered them all.New kings and rulers rose up to rule each state towards victory. The Qin rulers generally wanted to conquer all the others. The Qin rulers taught their people to destroy other states and justified harsh control‚ forced labor‚ and respecting the emperor. They used their manpower for big construction projects. The big amount
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city-states of China. After his death someone published the thoughts and conversations of Confucius in order to continue his teachings. There were also other thinkers that Confucius taught who continued to spread his teachings. One of these thinkers was Mencius and although he and adapts his ideas from Confucius’s Analects‚ his teachings differ and grow from Confucius’ thoughts and teachings. According to Confucius‚ everything people do in their mundane‚ daily lives constitutes ritual. The way people even
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The most significant influence about ancient Chinese history theory of human nature of is Mencius’s theory of "goodness" which I believe is the impressed content I learned from ancient Chinese philosophy. The understanding of human nature from Mencius is mainly from the nature of the people to understand the moral attribute of human nature‚ that human nature is "people who are different from animals. Physiological instincts
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What is passed down as history – in addition to formative cultural practices – is the cornerstone for all political and socioeconomic structure in society‚ both past and present. This relationship between the structure of a state and the substance of its people’s beliefs is evident across both traditions and time. Beginning with an open view of human functioning lends itself to be most constructive while investigating this relationship‚ which is viewing humans as more introspective beings looking
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