The Foundation of Morality-- A Comparison Between Mencius and Aristotle
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200826.072How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- 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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- © 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/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Zhijie Xie PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/28 TI - The Foundation of Morality-- A Comparison Between Mencius and Aristotle BT - Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 368 EP - 373 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200826.072 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200826.072 ID - Xie2020 ER -