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Confucian

Mencius (Mengzi)

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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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