Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2020)

The Foundation of Morality-- A Comparison Between Mencius and Aristotle

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Zhijie Xie
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Available Online 28 August 2020.
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10.2991/assehr.k.200826.072How to use a DOI?
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Mencius, Aristotle, ethics, human nature, virtue, practicability, Neo-Confucianism
Abstract

Mencius and Aristotle raised up two totally different ethical theory systems around the same era(B.C 384-B.C 289), among which Mencius’ is based on the idea of human’s original goodness and Aristotle’s is from human nature’s randomness. Besides that, we can see rich diversity of the procedures on how morality gets cultivated and completed from the two philosophers’ respective views. This essay takes Mencius’ ethics as “inside” and Aristotle’s ethics as “outside”, and compares and summarizes these different characteristics. Moreover, we try to find a metaphysical explanation for the speciality of each one according to their own theories and other philosophers’ works.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
28 August 2020
ISBN
978-94-6239-048-5
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200826.072How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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