A Study Of Mencius’ S Thought Of Ideal Personality

"human" is an important category of Confucianism,and the self-realization of human,that is,the production of ideal personality,is the focus of Mencius.As the successor of Confucius,who was the master of Confucianism,Mencius established a complete theoretical system of Confucius’ s ideal personality through the perfection of his ideal personality.His ideal personality includes a sage,a gentleman and a man.Mencius was in the Warring States period,a period of struggle for hegemony,disorder in the world,mutual conquest,the people have no place to live.In the fierce competition for Social Rights,it is urgent to restore social order and stabilize the situation in troubled times,while the ideal personality is the subject of restoring social order,Mencius’ s concern for the ideal personality rose from the level of self cultivation to the level of morality and ethics.Throughout the ages,Mencius’ s idea of ideal personality not only played an important role in the past society and people,but also had an impact on the value of our modern people.In addition to the introduction,this paper mainly discusses Mencius’ s ideal personality from the following four aspects.The first part of the ultimate basis,human nature basis,the background of the three aspects of the formation of Mencius’ s ideal personality in-depth exploration and research.The ideal personality was born in accordance with the times,which was based on the collapse of ceremony and music at that time.At the same time,the metaphysical destiny thought of Confucianism provided the basis for the realization of the ideal personality,which inherited the idea of natural talent,Mencius’ s theory of human nature is the basis for the realization of the ideal personality,and the good nature is the condition for the realization of personality.The second part mainly discusses the personality of the great man from three aspects: the proposition of the great man,the spiritual realm of the great man,the great man and the great spirit.Mencius’ s man personality is an image of Masculinity,independence,poverty and sacrifice,which makes Mencius’ s ideal personality more realistic and concrete.This kind of man spirit is also the ultimate direction of his gentleman personality and sage personality.The spirit of a man has set an example for the people of our future generations.The third part mainly discusses the gentleman’s personality from the theoretical source,the gentleman’s internal character and how to become the gentleman’s path.The gentleman is a personality inferior to the sage,Mencius’ s gentleman personality is more an image of moral level,the gentleman takes the saint as his target with Benevolence and righteousness rooted in the heart,to achieve the personality of a gentleman by means of self-cultivation,self-examination and self-cultivation.The fourth part mainly discusses the sage’s personality from three aspects: The sage’s theory source,the sage’s personality standard and the sage’s ideal of external king.The sage personality of Mencius inherits the sage personality of Confucius,the sage is the highest realm of the ideal personality,he is self-cultivation to the inside,and his ultimate aim is the external king’s service,to achieve the goal of governing the country and balancing the world,this also represents a kind of value embodiment of being an adult and becoming one’s own.Mencius clearly classified the saints,which made the personality of the saints more concrete,and the spiritual connotation of the saints’ personality set a moral model for the people of later ages.