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Mencius (Mengzi)
Philosopher, teacher, social thinker, and political theorist, venerated as the "Second Sage" of Rujiao (Confucianism) after confucius (kongfuzi); b.
c. 372 b.c. in the state of Zou (Tsou) in modern-day Shandong province; d. c. 289 b.c. Mencius is the Latinized form of the Chinese Mengzi (Meng-tzu) or "Master Meng."
Mencius lived during the turbulent period of the Warring States (475–221 b.c.).
An avid admirer of Confucius (Kongfuzi), he studied in the school founded by Confucius' grandson, Zisi (Tzu Ssu).
Meng tzu biography of christopher
In the treatise that bears his name, he elaborated upon the views of Confucius, defending them against scholars from rival schools. His unique contribution to the scholarly debate in particular, and Chinese philosophy in general, is his assertion on the goodness of the benxing, ("original human nature").
This assertion would not only undergird his entire philosophy and vision of life, but would eventually become the classical Confucian formulation o