The Modern Fate of Mencius' Thought about "the Nobility of the People"——The Value of "Citizen Participation"

Mencius' thought about Nobility of the People is the core of its benevolence policy.In Mencius' idea,nobility of has its sincerity and progressive value in history but without realistic basis.In essence,it is a strategy for the to conquer the world,and in reality,it is thought Jun Gui Min Qing,that is,the monarch is nobler than the people.The people were not treated as the subjects of rights and their subjectivity had been alienated.The reason is that working people were not power-holders,whose status of the subject rights failed to be guaranteed.The modern value of Mencius' thought is that it provides us with an ideological resource to establish humane democratic relationship under the conditions of modern society.Modern democratic politics,that is,the constitutional politics,could possibly realize the real sense of nobility of the people,and people are only ones to be served.The key value of the realization of constitutional politics is the citizen participation that activates Mencius' thought about nobility of and brings it new life.