Philosopher · Classical antiquity · China
Mencius
c. 372–c. 289 BC
Chinese Confucian thinker, the second sage of the tradition after Confucius, who taught that human nature is good and that rulers must earn the people's welfare. His conversations with kings were collected as the book Mencius. He lived about 372 to 289 BC.
Facts
- Born
- About 372 BC, in the state of Zou, China.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mencius
- Died
- About 289 BC.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mencius
- School
- Confucianism, its idealist wing.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mencius
- Known for
- The doctrine that human nature tends to good as water tends downhill, and that a ruler who starves his people loses the mandate to rule.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mencius
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