Mengzi

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of reciprocity in which this means that this action is to be human. This finalization assets the basic principle that every individual has a heart and a mind to feel for others. As evident, in Mengzi, there are two appeals in this child fall into the well analogy- connotating the notion of reason and experience. Mengzi quotes “Supposing people see a child fall into a well -- they all have a heart-mind that is shocked and sympathetic. It is not for the sake of being on good terms with the child's parents, and it is not for the sake of winning praise for neighbors and friends, nor is it because they dislike the child's noisy cry” (Meniscus).
In human nature, there is nothing more than what is innately there. The foundations of human nature is innate in which it depends solely on the notion that we are acting on automatic cognitive responses. …show more content…
. Mengzi further asserts this “innate concept” as “judging without a heart and a mind that sympathize” means that one is not human (Meniscus). Without a heart and a mind as well as the awareness of shame- means to not be human and to not be human is to have mind and heart that is unable to condemn and approve as well as defer to others. That is the conception of human nature. All humans have a mind and a heart of feel for others and each others because we all have can conceptualize logical argument as well as share very similar if not common experiences. The foundational qualities of the heart-mind complex include jugements, shame, sympathy, and deference. This is not only distinguishable characteristics that makes of the qualities of being human but as well as the sprouting qualitable values. What makes our feeling is the notion of “commiseration for others” - junzi as previously stated in this essay. Confucius further states that there is no conflict between the relationship of nature vs. nurture seeing that both facts
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