Mencius and the Expansion and Elaboratoin of Confucius' Notion of Human Nature

The extension and interpretation of Mencius and Confucian humanity concept often pay attention to human personality and condition. This is the case of Mencius. Mensius promises to expand and explain Confucius' humanistic view. Eastern religions are not focused on perfect people, but now and now, this mental problem must be tied in a more realistic way. Mencius is very good at this. Mencius connects every aspect of human condition to everything from water to willow.

Mencius was one of the largest disciples of Confucius and un child. Mencius introduced important elements of sympathy to Confucianism. With the expansion of Confucius, I seem to agree more with Mencius and his idea. He believes in the basic strengths of human nature and is very suspicious of the government. Mencius believes that only the qualities of human beings are inherent. The view of Mencius is that people are born to be kind, they "must protect the natural compassion of the soul."

Humanity is a central issue in Chinese philosophy. Confucius and Mencius believe that human nature is inherently good. Beginning from the Song dynasty, the theory of human primitiveism dominated Confucianism. However, Hsun Tzu teaches that humanity is inherently evil. As these quite different views show, the human race problem has caused many years of debate among Chinese thinkers. In Christian theology there are two ways to "imagine humanity". The first is "spiritual, biblical, theological," the second is "natural, cosmic, mystical". The focus of this section is in the former. As William James has said from a religious point of view about humanity, "religion" has a "humanity system"

Confucius believes in rituals and human nature. Religion as a motive for correct behavior has nothing to do with Mencius. Both Mencius and Confucius believe that the rulers are responsible for providing welfare to his people with material wealth and moral guidance. Unlike Confucius, Mencius believes that people will no longer need loyalty if the ruler can not provide this to his people. Confucius believes that people's interests are the first, and the interests of rulers should be the last. Mencius emphasizes that humanity is the key to recognizing social and political significance. They clearly agree that everyone has a tendency to be kind. Confucius spoke a lot about important things that he thought humanitarian, and Mencius extended the concept of mankind. According to Mencius, people can easily become gentle.