A Study On The Sage View Of Mengzi

The Confucian Sage in the pre-Qin period is the subject to construct a world with Tao and the unity of political and idiological authorities. As a representative of Confucius, Mencius'view of the Sage focuses on the ethical value of the moral proof of personal cultivation, state system and regulations. Via the shaping of ideal personality of the Sage, Mencius attempted to solve the current social problems in his time. Human nature, heart of compassion, initiates the core value of Mencius'view of the Sage. Based on the paramount of Heaven, its ethical value extended to the household, the country and the world, and to realize the way of king.Sharing the same inherence by the Sage and each common one, the ideal personality of Mencius is likely to realize. The process of moralization exists in self-introspectation, which is not a process of knowledge accumulation, but a natural one, from the outer to the inner, and one reaching the state of the Sage, emboding the paramount of Mencius'ideal personality. Mencius asserted that rules are the hightest standard of balance, while the Sage is the model of human being. Thus, the old saying goes, parent and the young one in possession of amicability, emperor and the subjects in possession of morality and justice, husbands and wife in possession of differentiation, the elder and the yonger in possession of order, and friends in possessions of loyalty. Mencius'view of the Sage can constitute every rule for human relations come from the God. Mencius think that God create human and everythings on earth, So God endow human and everything with inhesion of perpetuation and paramountcy. Mencius'view of the sage and God that nobody but sage can unification with God and nobody but sage can realize the God's essence and take the God's essence to kingcraft, using the God's holy enlighten kingcraft, using heart of compassion enlighten kingcraft of compassion, finally arrive at the place of sage and place of king. No other bourn like the bourn of sage can syncretic the world and using volition of just to restrict consciousness and using heart of reality feel the word and emanate light of holy by instinct.Professor Li Zhengang claimed that the Confucian Sage are amiable and easy to approach, while Taoists mistrusting the Sage and human brightness, and the Sage endowed supreme authority by Legalists from the ancient ages. The Confucian Sage, personal introspecting and cultivating, are from common people with fine social performance. For over 2,000 years, the Confucian thought, as the mainstream of Chinese culture, can be witnessed its origin from Mencius'view of the Sage.