Kokomirai Channel High School Ethics
- Mencius
- Theory of Human Nature
- Four Virtues
- Message: Assuming that people are inherently good, if there are problems in the country, it must be because of bad politics or something like that.
- Strive for the Way of the King in politics.
- Xunzi
- Theory of Human Nature
- Establish a method of governance that at least enforces rules on the surface, known as Ritualism.
-> Several hundred years later
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- Theory of Principle and Material
- Principle (Li): The principle that things should be as they should be.
- Material (Qi): The substance.
- It seems that human behavior is also determined by the principle.
- Nature is Principle
- The principle (Li) of a person is inherently good.
- The material (Qi) of a person, influenced by emotions, distorts that principle.
- Therefore, let’s strive to return it to goodness.
- How?
- Live with reverence and exhaust the principle.
- There are two things to do.
- Suppress desires (Qi) and impulses.
- Recognize that one’s own strengths are the principle, so let’s study various principles, not just for oneself but for others as well.
- Academic-oriented.
- Theory of Principle and Material
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Yangming School
- Anti-Nature is Principle
- It is not that the material part of the mind distorts the principle part, but rather that the entire mind is inherently good.
- A stronger Theory of Human Nature.
- Therefore, let’s manifest it in our actions.
- It is called Unity of Knowledge and Action, but it is different from what Socrates taught.
- It is not that the material part of the mind distorts the principle part, but rather that the entire mind is inherently good.
- Anti-Nature is Principle