The Analects records 22 names that are most likely Confucius ' disciples, while the Mencius records 24 names, although it is quite certain that there have been many more disciples whose name were not recorded.

Zi SiConfucius's grandsonis said to have taught Mencius and written the Doctrine of the Mean.

Nièzǐ means literally " sinful sons " or " sons of sin ", but it may also be an allusion to a passage in Mencius in which " friendless officials and concubine's sons " ( 孤臣孽子 ) reach positions of power because they have learned to live with a dangerous status.

* " Human Dispositions are Detestable " ( xing e ): Rejects Mencius ' claim that people have a natural inclination toward goodness.

The first four verses state the core credo of Confucianism, that is, that human nature is inherently good, as developed by Mencius, considered one of the most influential traditional Chinese philosophers after Confucius.

This " wisdom " is the name of one of Mencius four virtues which grow from the above-mentioned four beginnings.

In the centuries after his death, Mencius () and Xun Zi () both composed important teachings elaborating in different ways on the fundamental ideas associated with Confucius.

While Confucianism also examines the negative aspect of human nature, thus the necessity to habituate oneself with ritual, the purpose of the practice of ritual and attainment of ren is not focused on restricting the darker aspects of human nature but developing the " fundamental goodness ", i. e., the duan of human beings that Mencius writes of.

The " will " is a fundamental concept in the philosophy of Mencius, leading authorities such as David Division to classify Mencius as a " voluntarism " philosopher.

This basic quality, which was for Confucius and Mencius the bond between human society and the ways of Heaven ( tian ) and hence fundamental to the underlying moral structure of the universe, was expanded by Zhang Zai to encompass the universe itself, since for the sage to form " one body with the universe " suggests the complementarity and fundamental identify of microcosm and macrocosm.

" This attitude toward nurture over nature may appear similar to that of Mencius, but the stances of the two in this case should not be confused: while Mencius argues that people are born good but need a positive environment in order to fully prosper with the Way, Xunzi argues that it is only the environment which can save a person from immorality.

This culminates in a passage bringing together Laurence Binyon's dictum slowness is beauty, the San Ku, or three sages, figures from the Chou King who are responsible for the balance between heaven and earth, Jacques de Molay, the golden section, a room in the church of St. Hilaire, Poitiers built to that rule where one can stand without throwing a shadow, Mencius on natural phenomena, the 17th-century English mystic John Heydon ( who Pound remembered from his days working with Yeats ) and other images relating to the worship of light including "' MontSegur, sacred to Helios ".

He argued that if we did not feel satisfaction or pleasure in nourishing one's " vital force " with " righteous deeds ", that force would shrivel up ( Mencius, 6A: 15 2A: 2 ).

According to Mencius 孟子, a powerful ruler once asked him whether it was moral if he preferred popular music to the classics.

Philosophers such as Confucius, Mencius, and Mozi, focused on political unity and political stability as the basis of their political philosophies.

Mencius ( 4th century BC ) articulated the innate goodness in human beings as a source of the ethical intuitions that guide people towards rén, yì, and lǐ, while Xun Zi ( 3rd century BC ) underscored the realistic and materialistic aspects of Confucian thought, stressing that morality was inculcated in society through tradition and in individuals through training.

Diametrically opposed to Mencius, in regards to human nature ( 性 ), was the interpretation of Xunzi ( c. 300 – 237 BC ), another Confucian follower.

Mencius says: " When being a child, yearn for and love your parents ; when growing mature, yearn for and love your lassie ; when having wife and child ( ren ), yearn for and love your wife and child ( ren ); when being an official ( or a staffer ), yearn for and love your sovereign ( and / or boss ).

Of these, Meng is the best known, being the surname of the philosopher Mencius.

Other philosophers, theorists, and schools of thought in this era were Mozi, founder of Mohism ; Mencius, a famous Confucian who expanded upon Confucius ' legacy ; Shang Yang and Han Fei, responsible for the development of ancient Chinese Legalism ( the core philosophy of the Qin Dynasty ); and Xun Zi, who was arguably the center of ancient Chinese intellectual life during his time, even more so than iconic intellectual figures such as Mencius.

Mencius, for instance, criticized an ex-student of Xu Xing, a " barbarian " from Chu who became a leading Chinese philosopher of Agriculturalism.

The Chinese Confucian thinker Mencius, who 2300 years ago sought to give advice to the ruthless political leaders of the warring states period, was convinced that the mind played a mediating role between the " lesser self " ( the physiological self ) and the " greater self " ( the moral self ) and that getting the priorities right between these two would lead to sage-hood.

Confucianism, especially of the type argued for by Mencius (), argued that the ideal ruler is the one who ( as Confucius put it ) " acts like the North Star, staying in place while the other stars orbit around it ".

Mencius criticized Yang Zhu as one “ who would not pluck a hair from his body to benefit the world .” However, Yang Zhu emphasized that self-impairment, symbolized by the plucking of one ’ s hair, would in no way lead to others ’ benefit.

" This term, which was variously used by other Chinese philosophers ( including Confucius, Mencius, Mozi, and Hanfeizi ), has special meaning within the context of Daoism, where it implies the essential, unnamable process of the universe.

A larger collection of Confucius ' teachings existed in the Warring States period than has been preserved directly: 75 % of Confucius ' sayings cited by his second-generation student, Mencius, do not exist in the received text of the Analects.

In comparison with other Chinese philosophical giants, Yang Zhu has recently faded into relative obscurity, but his influence in his own time was so widespread that Mencius ( 孟子 ) described his philosophies along with the antithetical ideas of Mozi ( 墨子 ) as " floods and wild animals that ravage the land " ( Liu: 1967: 358 ).

When he was twelve he took to reading St. Augustine and Aquinas, then Lao-tse, Confucius, Mencius, Suzuki, Hindu tomes by endless Krishnaists and numerous socio-archaeological papers.

The philosopher Mencius once criticized its chief proponent Xu Xing ( 許行 ) for advocating that rulers should work in the fields with their subjects.

In Mencius ' view, all men are born to share goodness such as compassion and good heart, although they may become wicked.

The Three Character Classic begins with " People at birth are naturally good ( kind-hearted )", which stems from Mencius ' idea.

Confucius himself had little to say on the will of the people, but his leading follower Mencius did state on one occasion that the people's opinion on certain weighty matters should be considered.

*** The Mencius, a book of anecdotes and conversations of Mencius, a disciple of Confucius.

* Mencius: One of the most important thinkers in the Confucian school, he is the first theorist to make a coherent argument for an obligation of rulers to the ruled.

According to the Yizhoushu and Mencius the battle was very bloody.

* Mencius ( Mèng Zǐ or Meng Zhu ), Chinese philosopher ( approximate date ) ( b. c. 372 BC )

* Mencius, Chinese philosopher ( d. c. 289 BC )

A Mencius passage praising two legendary sages described them as Dongyi 東夷 and Xiyi 西夷.

" Mencius said, Shun " was an Eastern barbarian " and King Wen of Zhou " was a Western barbarian.

The Four Books include: the Analects of Confucius, a book of pithy sayings attributed to Confucius and recorded by his disciples ; Mencius, a collection of political dialogues ; the Doctrine of the Mean, a book that teaches the path to Confucian virtue ; and the Great Learning, a book about education, self-cultivation and the Dao.

Author and Irish Wolfhound breeder Linda Glover believes the dogs ' close affinity with humans makes them acutely aware and sensitive to ill will or malicious intentions leading to them excelling as a guardian rather than guard dog.

As mentioned above, Foot instead believes that humans are actually motivated by desires.

For example, Michael Schwalbe believes that humans must be taught how to act appropriately in their designated gender in order to properly fill the role and that the way people behave as masculine or feminine interacts with social expectations.

**: Argument: Oliver believes that humans can fly, therefore humans can fly.

The last surviving person would of course have to confront and accept that his or her consciousness is the only local human consciousness in existence ( subject to verification that all other humans have not survived ), whereas a solipsist believes that his or her consciousness is the only one in existence regardless of who else, if anyone, is living.

At the deepest level, Wolfram believes that like many of the most important scientific ideas, the Principle allows science to be more general by pointing out new ways in which humans are not special.

For example, he cannot tell the difference between robots and humans ( or human males and females ), believes food is digested in the heart, and that humans have multiple mouths and a dorsal fin.

God believes that by appearing in human form, performing miracles, suffering and dying, he will create a religion that will allow more humans to attain Heaven by reverence and fear.

" He wonders “ over whom to get more embarrassed ; him who believes he can deceive humans in the eighteenth century with such farces or him who has the weakness to let himself be deceived .” He moves on to criticize the very notion of free will as construct that authorizes Christianity to proscribe certain " unmoral " actions.

Ham also believes that dinosaurs co-existed with modern humans.

He believes that there would be peace between animals and humans if each understood the other.

* Coco ( Pauly Parrot ): A green parrot who spent some time living with humans and believes that he should be put in charge of mentoring Leo.

He also tells Neo about The One, a human with the power to manipulate The Matrix, who has been foretold to end the war between humans and machines, and says that he believes Neo is The One.

In UNIT: The Coup ( 2004 ), the Silurians attempt to finally make peace with the humans, though the general public believes it to be a stunt involving men in rubber suits.

They are categorically stated to be energy beings, with one being shown to be capable of transforming into the " green rings ", and are to some extent individualised – there is a dissenting faction in the " Mysteron consciousness " ( as a member of the faction puts it ) that believes that, given time, humans will outgrow their destructive impulses and become more like the Mysterons themselves.

Robert Morrison believes that there is " a deep resonance between them " as " both emphasise the centrality of humans in a godless cosmos and neither looks to any external being or power for their respective solutions to the problem of existence ".

Unlike other versions, Ultimate Medusa is against all associations with the Fantastic Four and believes that the two races of Inhumans and humans can never co-mingle in peace.

Tullberg believes that humans are built with the capacity to cheat and manipulate, a view taken from Trivers ( 1971, 1985 ), hence the need for learning normative values and rules in human behavior.

Modo believes in compost in much the same way that humans believe in gods ( dwarfs aren't religious, exactly ).

Daniels then tells Archer that he believes it is imperative that he convince the Xindi of two things ; that humans do not pose a threat to them, and that in the future, they will be their only hope of survival.

Cosmologist Alan Guth believes humans will in time be able to generate new universes.

Hubble believes that it's the love between humans and dogs and the partnership that creates a great loyalty between the dogs and their humans.