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Mencius found Confucius’s personal life to be the most convincing reflection of his philosophy, and he revered Confucius as a singular, unmatched sage. Even so, Mencius was greatly challenged by the prevailing reality of the time, when people were greedy and cruel and generally displayed anything but moral and virtuous traits.
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Confucianism. The Mencius ( Chinese: 孟子; pinyin: Mèngzǐ; Old Chinese: *mˤraŋ-s tsəʔ) is a collection of conversations, anecdotes, and series of genuine and imagined interviews by the Confucian philosopher Mencius. [1] The book is one of the Chinese Thirteen Classics, and explores Mencius' views on the topics of moral and political ...
Mencius is a record of the philosopher's conversations with warring lords, disciples, and adversaries of the Way, as well as a collection of pronouncements on government, human nature, and a variety of other philosophical and political subjects. Mencius is largely concerned with the motivations of human actors and their capacity for mutual respect.
Mencius, cunoscut și după numele său de naștere, Meng Ke sau Ko, s-a născut în statul Zhou, provincia Shandong, la doar 30 de kilometri sud de Qufu, locul de naștere al lui Confucius . A fost un filozof și înțelept itinerant chinez, unul din principalii interpreți ai confucianismului. Este considerat discipolul nepotului lui ...
Mencius studied humans the way Lorenz studied other animals. Mencius was an ethologist too, but in the language of ancient China he was regarded as a "master," that is, a teacher. He was a Confucian, and Confucianism is sometimes called a religion. However, Mencius does not quote religious texts and try to get people to act the way those books ...
Mencius, in 1B.16.) Mencius’s disciples referred to him as Master Meng,“” which in Chinese was “Mengzi,” turned into “Mencius” by European interpreters of Chinese culture two thousand years after his death. We do not know Mencius’s dates with accuracy, but we do know that he was an old man
