Mencius

The nature of humanity is born to be evil. Mencius believes that nature is good, but Thomas Hobbes and Hsun Tzu helped me come to the conclusion of why we are so evil. It is human nature to do as we please even if it is not the best thing to do. Although, we are taught to love others we overpower it by our evilness. The nature of humans are evil because we are sinful, everyone wants to be better than someone else, and we are influenced by our environment around us. We were born to commit…

and burying of scholars. After the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi unified China in 221 BC; he banned reading books and burned it all. Before he unified China, there were many philosophers and scholars affected by thought of Confucius and Mencius. They…

hina is a large country in Asia. Ancient china had its own achievements, philosophy, and religion. All of this was around the bronze age. China had its own political system. China was very organized during the bronze age. During the Stone Age, people in China lived in small villages and had big men in charge, and then chieftains. But by the time of the Shang Dynasty, about 1800 BC, China was united into an empire and there was an emperor or empress who ruled over many smaller kings. ( quartr.us…

Confucianism, also called Ruism, is a way of life. It was founded by the Chinese philosopher Confucius, and developed by one of his students, Mencius. There are five main concepts of Confucianism, which are humaneness (ren), righteousness (yi), ritual/propriety (li), wisdom (zhi) and trustworthiness (xin), “which are believed to be as constant and unchanging as natural laws, remaining the same for all time and guiding/ordering all other virtues.” (Yao, 53) The first concept of the Confucianism…

Seligman found that the most satisfied people were those who had discovered their unique combination of "signature strengths," such as humanity, temperance and persistence. His vision of happiness is combined with the virtue ethics of Confucius, Mencius and Aristotle with modern psychological theories of motivation. His conclusion is that happiness has three dimensions that can be cultivated: the Pleasant Life, the Good Life, and the Meaningful Life. The Pleasant Life is realized to be that if…

there is no absolute evidence, his remarks and short stories is actually what he said the lack of background, clear The degree of his many doctrines is open to the interpretation of the individualThe other three major sources of Confucian thought are Mencius, Great Learning and Mean. With Analects, these works constitute the Four Books of Confucianism otherwise referred to as the Confucian Classics. Through these texts, Confucianism became China's official state religion in the second century…

Proper Order in Confucianism and as educated fundamentally by Mencius, the Chinese scholar, which is the applied hypothesis that trains how individuals can achieve their most astounding capability of moral and material prosperity encapsulated in Mencius' origination of human nature. The hypothesis of proper order is the essential and philosophical route to that end. Proper order has had enduring and substantial consequences for present day East Asian governmental issues and its connection…

The first scholar paper that I’ve gone through talks about the status of Confucianism in nowadays east Asia. Confucianism was one of the most influential and representative thoughts of East Asian culture. However, the status of Confucianism is declining today, even in East Asia, it is regarded as “an anachronistic thought” since the end of the 19th century. The author points out that the two main reasons why Confucianism losing its influence – the lack of democratic and industrial spirit, which…

(1467-1573), involved violent wars in which certain daimyos wanted a whole empire. This was known as the ‘Onion War’, where the daimyos overpowered the shoguns and the shoguns had no control over the country. As the ‘Confucian philosophers in that period, Mencius and Hsun-tzu stated, ‘‘It was a time of great intellectual ferment’’. These wars were stopped and a new initiation of peace was created. This is also known as the ‘reunification of Japan’. This was produced by the ‘Three Unifiers’, who…

Looking at the topic of child abuse from different ethical theories can provide different viewpoints for the reader, as well as open new doors and ideas to help the subject matter. The effects child abuse has on a child can be many as well as extreme. These effects include academic problems, dissociation, anxiety, depression, disorders, self-harm, and many more. “Ethical theory is about significant ethical obligations involving all people and any other entities, which have moral standing.”…