Religious Leaders Manh Tu

Mencius was an outstanding man of Confucianism during the Warring States period, a period when hundreds of schools had to think as big as Confucianism. Family, Legalism, Mo family... are in full bloom. At that time, Mencius further developed the thought of Confucius in combination with social principles of chi, vi precious, and military vi contempt. He is also the one who put forward the theory of human goodness, which is "the basic nature of the good nature", which is in stark contrast to Xun Tu's thought that "the human nature is the original nature of evil". Mencius said, "Those who work hard will rule people, and those who work hard will be ruled by people". He brought this doctrine of his to propagate to the kings in the vassal countries such as Dang Van Cong (Teng country), Te Tuyen Vuong (Qi country), Luong Hue Vuong (Wei country) but unfortunately, it was not possible. significant advantage. Towards the end of his life, he worked as a teacher and wrote a book. His Book of Mencius is one of the very important books of Confucianism.

Mencius put forth such thoughts as "The benevolent throughout the world has no enemies", " Naturally righteous", need "Taking Germany to conquer others". He also pointed out that, to become a rational person, it is necessary to keep four standards: "humble mind, belonging to ritual; mind of dissent, belonging to wisdom, compassion, belonging to benevolence. word; shame, belonging to the meaning" (according to "The first book of Cong Ton Suu"). These four characteristics of people, together with their respective actions, have become the four virtues of benevolence, which are ritual, benevolence, meaning and intelligence. All his life, he always advocated to encourage people to do good, his words were in the spirit of encouraging and guiding people.