The Study On Mencius Gentleman Personality Thought View

Mencius is one of the Warring States period Confucian representatives. The gentlemanpersonality view is one of his ideal personality thought. A gentleman not depends on whetherto raise the benevolence. Can be the mind, you can always change one’s evil ways and reformgood to evil. The preface of the thesis has make a briefly combs to Mencius gentlemanpersonality. The Tao is a gentleman’s code of conducts. The gentleman San Road is to becharacterized which is to benevolence and ritual in the heart. Good is out by heart and theheart has courtesy wisdom demonstrated, four hearts is conscience. Conscience also needs tosave and the example which is to prove the good. The second, the way is a life. Thegentleman walks in the world which is has their own ways and principles. The third, Tao isthe official. A gentleman need an official which is has own ambition and seeking officialattitude.Tao is the criterion, morality is behavior. The gentleman’s heart through dwell inbenevolence and righteousness, no shame, her spirit several aspects. First, the fundamentaldwell in benevolence and righteousness take benevolence in righteousness uphold which ishas the benevolence and external virtue together. Second, generous heart awareness byconscience is that to be worthy of heaven and earth. Third, man is the gentleman’srepresentative, which is via lay down one’s life for justice and rest content to embody ownpersonality.A gentleman has conscious entities, focusing on external virtue and also paid greatattention to their own self-cultivation. First, in order to ease, It is need to keep own good.Second, good beings need gas accumulation, none of them discussed how through the specificway is good. Third, it is can also through self-examination be obtained good. When theirbehavior by self-examination to find the heart that is not consistent with the way, the nature isnot explicit which is needs a reflexive and sincere.