Mencius Has Good Points About Human Nature

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Mencius has good points about human nature which is similar to my view as human nature. As I think of human nature , I think of how we as human being we use our feeling to like and dislike certain thing in the world. As Mencius describe in page (29) “ Thee fore there is something men love more than life and there is something men hate more than death.” What he trying to say is that man like and dislike based on the felling that he get. For-example being alive we all human want to be alive which is feeling that we don’t want to die. The human nature is based on human reaction how we react when certain things happen to us.

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