An Analysis Of Mencius' Political Philosophy

During the warring states period, but the Chinese ancient history of the culturaldevelopment of the peak. In this period cultural and academic fields have achieved greatsuccesses. Manlius is the climax of the warring states middle schools of thoughtcontend in the representative figure of Confucianism. Manlius knowledgeable, oratoryin Lundy factions of the argument, to defend and carry forward the Confucius foundedthe Confucianism theory, become the school important the inheritance and development.The warring states period is the big social reform period the middle, but also in thehistory of China frequent war, the people’s life gaunt era of the poor, to end the war, toestablish a new feudal social order, and the reunification and the country of salvation,mercies and play the Confucius to carry forward the "people oriented" benevolenttheory of governing. From the livelihood of the people, the affections of the phase tomeasure the ruler to back the gain and loss of success or failure, and put forward a seriesof important measures for the people’s livelihood.For the troubled, mercies against the war against, against the war with more waysto achieve unification. He advocated using the method of benevolent, and all the peopleattracted, finally unified the world. This paper based on the mercies text, from everyAngle analysis mercies benevolent thought core content.In politics, the main advocate to people for this, people heavy people theory, fromthe land problem, we set out to solve the basic problems of the farmer survival, and givepeople a certain rights. Manlius focusing on talent absorption and function, request theruler, throw position, without prejudice, attracting outstanding talents, let them toparticipate in the management of the country, so that we can guarantee the prosperity ofthe country, the ruling order in an orderly way.In the economic area, from a series of the system, such as, the yield of the people,JingTianZhi, light were taxes, ensure the state assigned to people’s fixed to the survivalof basic life material, let they can live a stable economic life; Manlius advocatedevelopment and protection of industrial and commercial enterprises, promote thenormal development of the economic order. Manlius inheriting Confucius’ thought, payattention to moral education, new school, based on education to the people, and themoral education, to each level of all the people to improve their own moralaccomplishment, to build a good social culture atmosphere. In this paper the merciespeople-based thought for a comprehensive discussion.