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A Tentative Analysis into the Differentiation of "an Unperturbed Mind" of Mencius and Gaozi

Xia Wang

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The realm of Gaozi's of the is paid attention to by the justice. Mencius's covers the personality training realm of paying attention to the aspect of justice. The reason of the different lay in Mencius objection to Gaozi's view that if you fail to win by words, do not resort to your thoughts, so he Maintains that analyzing others' speeches, is grown by the heart, focus on giving play to the moral character of the and knowing double function with the shrewd speech all over the world. Gaozi maintained that righteousness in external norm should measure others' speech. On the understanding of the relation of the heart and speech, of the intension of heart and justice, Mencius was different from Gaozi because they have different understanding of human nature and righteousness, therefore the difference of the realms of imperturbation of the mind of Mencius and Gaozi declared publicly the basic difference of the line of reasoning of their thoughts.

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The realm of Gaozi's of the is paid attention to by the justice. Mencius's covers the personality training realm of paying attention to the aspect of justice. The reason of the different lay in Mencius objection to Gaozi's view that if you fail to win by words, do not resort to your thoughts, so he Maintains that analyzing others' speeches, is grown by the heart, focus on giving play to the moral character of the and knowing double function with the shrewd speech all over the world. Gaozi maintained that righteousness in external norm should measure others' speech. On the understanding of the relation of the heart and speech, of the intension of heart and justice, Mencius was different from Gaozi because they have different understanding of human nature and righteousness, therefore the difference of the realms of imperturbation of the mind of Mencius and Gaozi declared publicly the basic difference of the line of reasoning of their thoughts.

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The realm of Gaozi's of the is paid attention to by the justice. Mencius's covers the personality training realm of paying attention to the aspect of justice. The reason of the different lay in Mencius objection to Gaozi's view that if you fail to win by words, do not resort to your thoughts, so he Maintains that analyzing others' speeches, is grown by the heart, focus on giving play to the moral character of the and knowing double function with the shrewd speech all over the world. Gaozi maintained that righteousness in external norm should measure others' speech. On the understanding of the relation of the heart and speech, of the intension of heart and justice, Mencius was different from Gaozi because they have different understanding of human nature and righteousness, therefore the difference of the realms of imperturbation of the mind of Mencius and Gaozi declared publicly the basic difference of the line of reasoning of their thoughts.

Key concepts: Intension, Realm, Righteousness, Economic Justice, Epistemology, Relation (database), Character (mathematics), Norm (philosophy)

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