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The Psychological Explorations into Meng Zi′s Moral Emotion

Ning Dengguo

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Zi's philosophy is to pursue goodness.His lofty ideal is to love all nature and people as well as his blood relations.His principle of life is to pay attention to his own moral uplift when he is in destitute,and to benefit all the people in the world when in success.His consistent spirit is to lay down for a just cause,and to die to achieve virtue-die for the just cause.This kind of moral emotion actually negates and revolts the social reality of chaos caused by the constant wars at that time.On the other hand,it is also close to his strict self control and the spirit of pursuing goodness.The article tries to resume the Meng Zi which is regarded as a symbol signal of politics to a real person who lives in a cultural life,which will contribute to understand the cultural intension of Confucian more deeply .

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Zi's philosophy is to pursue goodness.His lofty ideal is to love all nature and people as well as his blood relations.His principle of life is to pay attention to his own moral uplift when he is in destitute,and to benefit all the people in the world when in success.His consistent spirit is to lay down for a just cause,and to die to achieve virtue-die for the just cause.This kind of moral emotion actually negates and revolts the social reality of chaos caused by the constant wars at that time.On the other hand,it is also close to his strict self control and the spirit of pursuing goodness.The article tries to resume the Meng Zi which is regarded as a symbol signal of politics to a real person who lives in a cultural life,which will contribute to understand the cultural intension of Confucian more deeply .

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Zi's philosophy is to pursue goodness.His lofty ideal is to love all nature and people as well as his blood relations.His principle of life is to pay attention to his own moral uplift when he is in destitute,and to benefit all the people in the world when in success.His consistent spirit is to lay down for a just cause,and to die to achieve virtue-die for the just cause.This kind of moral emotion actually negates and revolts the social reality of chaos caused by the constant wars at that time.On the other hand,it is also close to his strict self control and the spirit of pursuing goodness.The article tries to resume the Meng Zi which is regarded as a symbol signal of politics to a real person who lives in a cultural life,which will contribute to understand the cultural intension of Confucian more deeply .

Key concepts: Intension, Virtue, Ideal (ethics), Symbol (formal), Politics, Sociology, Social psychology, Aesthetics

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