1, People-oriented Thought: On the basis of summing up the experience of the Warring States, Mencius summed up the laws governing the rise and fall of chaos in various countries and put forward a famous topic: "People are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the light."
People think that how to treat people is extremely important to the rise and fall of a country.
2. Benevolent policy theory: Mencius inherited and developed Confucius' thought of ruling by virtue, and developed it into benevolent policy theory, which became the core of his political thought. Mencius' political theory is king with benevolent governance as its content, and its essence is to serve the feudal ruling class.
3. Mencius' educational thought is also the inheritance and development of Confucius' educational thought of "teaching without discrimination". They all regard education for all as the means and purpose of benevolent governance. On the one hand, it advocates strengthening school education by "setting up schools in an emergency to teach it"; On the other hand, those in power need to set an example.
4. Mencius' main philosophical thought is his "theory of good nature", which is the theoretical basis of Mencius' talk about life and politics and the central link in his ideological system.
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Mencius inherited and developed Confucius' thought of ruling by virtue, and developed it into the theory of benevolent governance, which became the core of his political thought. Mencius' political theory is king with benevolent governance as its content, and its essence is to serve the feudal ruling class. He applied the principles of "pro" and "long" to politics to ease class contradictions and safeguard the long-term interests of the feudal ruling class.
On the one hand, Mencius strictly distinguished the class status of the ruler and the ruled, and thought that "those who do things rule their people, and those who do things rule their people", and imitated the Zhou system to draw up a hierarchy from emperor to ruler; On the other hand, the relationship between the ruler and the ruled is compared to the relationship between parents and children, and it is advocated that the ruler should care about the sufferings of the people like parents, and the people should be close to and serve the ruler like parents.