Research On The Mencius “First Establish Yourself In The Greater Part”

"First establish yourself in the greater part" is an important proposition of Mencius philosophy,contains arguments such as " less or great",,"heaven to humans" and other important content.Through the proposition of this paper,Mencius establishes the message of "Goodness".The understanding of this proposition should begin from explanations of these concepts : "the greater man","the greater part".Mencius put "the greater man" at the beginning,to the inner layers of propulsion,proved that “the greater part” has roots in activity of “thought”,which is natural and free of the humans' distraction.In addition,Philosophers such as Sunshi,Zhuxi,Xiangshan,Yangming,Daizhen,and so on,have had explained one or some respects of those concepts.Through comparing these annotations,we can also get some messages as circumstantial evidence.Based on the activity of “thought”,the discussion about link of "the greater part"and "establish yourself in the greater part",to overcome the risk that see “the large one" as two tendencies,will find the self-explanatory and pre-existence of the activity of “thought” that said by the proposition “establish yourself in the greater part”.At the same time,Mencius also established "the four terminal",used the concept “righteousness” to account for the activity's logic: both keep self-limiting and exaggerate sense.Regarding the activity of “thought” as the core,and combining “being” and“non-being”,Mencius express the activity of "thought" everywhere in his text,for example "see cows and did not see the sheep"," keep with people",and "enlarge",lighten the hide of his ideology.