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Humanity Expand The Interpretation Of Mencius "the Discrimination Between Righteousness,

Posted on:2007-06-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:N N ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360185456920Subject:Chinese philosophy
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Mencius created an informative system about the problems of morality and benefits,that occupied important position in the history of China and impacted on the formation of a psychological culture of the Chinese nation. In the face of advantages,the behavior of a sacrifice only for justice has become the eternal value for Chinese people. For the past the research about the debate carried out mostly in the sense of ethics. It is creative that Mencius deepened the debate to explore the philosophical sense. It is not important to set specific selection criteria and orientation. In Chinese culture's enlightenment stage,the great philosopher with the wise was found beings themselves. Confucian used justice and humanity to discuss people in the culture. Mencius had tried to consciously grasp the conscience in the two thousand years ago, than created Mencius on the mind. Thinkers who created the early Chinese culture, or early Chinese culture created thinkers may be philosophical paradox. But we have to admit that the "mature" let the Chinese culture establish a higher threshold, but also let the culture itself not fully experience unlimited fun only when young. These questions can be reflected from Mencius on the debate between morality and benefit. Therefore, we unscramble the debates through Mencius on mind in order to explore their own philosophy that further reflects on the cultural impact of their own people. This article is to find the original meanings and the new understandings of Mencius.Beginning with the research on the doctrine of the universal human nature,we try to find Mencius how to identify the nature of humanity and whether or not there is a necessity arise. If the answer is yes, then Mencius explained in several dimensions the relationship with morality and benefits, which had a far-reaching influence on Chinese people. The article want to go back to the classics at the beginning, and keep faithful to original meanings, but that does not mean that the article only adopts the methods of translation. Under the background of the genuine respect to the text, some new points have been added to the article.First of all, Mencius on mind is the philosophical cornerstone of the debate between morality and benefit. Mencius considered that the core of the theory of human nature is that human beings are always unfinished. Mencius discovered the good potential only...
Keywords/Search Tags:Mencius, human nature, Mencius on the mind, the debate over justice and benefit, the intellectual
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