Combat Profile
Inherent Goodness
reveals the innate moral nature within all beings, awakening their capacity for virtue and righteousness
Sage's Doctrine
all allies gain wisdom and clarity; spreads the teaching that human nature tends toward goodness when nurtured
Sage | Confucian
Second Confucian sage (c. 372-289 BCE); argued that human nature is fundamentally good; that sprouts of compassion, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom are innate in every person and need only cultivation. Where Confucius was descriptive and dialogic, Mencius was argumentative and bold — he challenged rulers directly, declared that tyrants who lost the Mandate of Heaven could be righteously overthrown, and articulated the most optimistic theory of human nature in classical Chinese thought.
Parallels: Rousseau (Enlightenment — innate human goodness, corrupted by society), Paul of Tarsus (articulated and systematized the founder’s teaching for a new generation), Plato (student who surpassed the master in systematic philosophy) See also: Confucius, Junzi, Xunzi, Heaven (Tian)
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