society would disintegrate into chaos and violence. Mencius‚ another Chinese scholar and fellow student of Confucius‚ believed the opposite. He thought that human nature is ultimately good and that people learn to be evil from various influences and experiences in their life. After reading both essays‚ it was extremely difficult for me to decide which author I agreed with. Hsun Tzu’s essay was a direct criticism of the essay written by Mencius and there were some very good examples of why he believed
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stories‚ there are many gods who were greatest educator or philosophers as well. Such as the founder of the theory of Taoism‚ Lao Zi‚ he is the highest-level god in the religion. Moreover‚ great educators and historical people like Confucian and Mencius or the hero Yue Fei or Guan Gong‚ they are also the gods in the religion. Taoists are seeking immortality. From the foundation of Taoism in 2 AD‚ Taoists have been seeking the best way to longer their lives. Taoists don’t care about what will happen
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Chinese women have less dependency on men than Indian women but there is still a great dependency on men by women in both societies. In China‚ women have higher degree of expression than women in classical India society. In the Mother of Mencius‚ written by Mencius
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The 250 years between 475 and 221 BC was called the Warring States Period because the Zhou dynasty split into . These states fought alot until the Qin dynasty conquered them all.New kings and rulers rose up to rule each state towards victory. The Qin rulers generally wanted to conquer all the others. The Qin rulers taught their people to destroy other states and justified harsh control‚ forced labor‚ and respecting the emperor. They used their manpower for big construction projects. The big amount
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city-states of China. After his death someone published the thoughts and conversations of Confucius in order to continue his teachings. There were also other thinkers that Confucius taught who continued to spread his teachings. One of these thinkers was Mencius and although he and adapts his ideas from Confucius’s Analects‚ his teachings differ and grow from Confucius’ thoughts and teachings. According to Confucius‚ everything people do in their mundane‚ daily lives constitutes ritual. The way people even
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The most significant influence about ancient Chinese history theory of human nature of is Mencius’s theory of "goodness" which I believe is the impressed content I learned from ancient Chinese philosophy. The understanding of human nature from Mencius is mainly from the nature of the people to understand the moral attribute of human nature‚ that human nature is "people who are different from animals. Physiological instincts
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What is passed down as history – in addition to formative cultural practices – is the cornerstone for all political and socioeconomic structure in society‚ both past and present. This relationship between the structure of a state and the substance of its people’s beliefs is evident across both traditions and time. Beginning with an open view of human functioning lends itself to be most constructive while investigating this relationship‚ which is viewing humans as more introspective beings looking
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Human Nature: Good or Evil? After reading Mencius essay “Mans Nature is Good” and Hsun Tzu’s essay “Mans Nature is Evil” It made me realize that men are shaped by experience. People are born with a blank mind with a desire of some knowledge. Much of what we learn affects our behavior. Throughout our life‚ experiences have been shaping what we are. Both Mencius and Tzu believe the complete opposite‚ arguing that men are born with a nature of being good or evil. By reading these articles I’ve come
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democracy and a few of their laws. Pericles showed the importance for all men who are able to participate in government and politics. Document 6 shows a conversation between two Chinese philosophers named Wan Chang and Mencius about how an emperor of Han China was “appointed” to office. Mencius indicated that the emperor himself was not appointed by peasants‚ but by “Heaven”. Documents 2 and 3 show the population differences and document 1 compared the size of Attica and Han China. Because Athens had a
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The scholar article that I found to support the essay about the mandate of heaven is "The ‘Mandate of Heaven’: Mencius and The Divine Command Theory of Political Legitimacy." written by Nuyen‚ A. T. In this article‚ the two philosophers from ancient China‚ Confucius and Mencius’s political views on the terms of the mandate of heaven is discuss as well as the Divine Command Theory of political legitimacy. It claims that the theory is parallel to the Divine Command Theory of morality. The liberal interpretation
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