In Fish I Want and Mencius Teng Wengong, Mencius expounded what kind of propositions

Sacrifice life for righteousness.

The lonely ghost can't be moved because of poverty, and the mighty can't be bent, which is called a big husband.

Fish I want is also sacrificing my life for righteousness.

"Fish I Want" is selected from "Mencius: Confession I". The full text compares the familiar fish and bear's paw in people's daily life, compares life to fish, and compares righteousness to bear's paw, and naturally derives the conclusion of "sacrificing life for righteousness" from "fish and bear's paws cannot be both", and expresses the proposition that etiquette and righteousness should be more important than life.

The main thrust of "Fish I Want".

Mencius started with a common sense of life at the beginning of the article, that is, in the case that the fish and the bear's paw cannot be obtained at the same time, it is generally necessary to "give up the fish and take the bear's paw", Mencius used this common sense of life as a metaphor, and naturally led to the conclusion that in the case of life and righteousness cannot be taken into account at the same time, we should "sacrifice life and take righteousness", which is also the main purpose of this article.

Mencius is a masterpiece of in-depth discussion of man's view of life and death based on his theory of sexual goodness in "Fish I Want". Starting from how people should deal with their own desires, he argued in depth and proportionally in terms of life and death, profit and righteousness, righteousness and injustice, and so on.

It expounds an important proposition of Mencius: righteousness is more important than life, and when righteousness and life cannot be both, life should be sacrificed for righteousness. x0d "Fish, I want it, bear paws, I want it; You can't have both, and you can't have both, and those who give up the fish and take the bear's paw are also.

Life, also what I want, righteousness, also what I want; You can't have both, and those who sacrifice their lives to take righteousness are also. Mencius used an analogy with the specific things that people are familiar with in life: the fish is what I want, and the bear's paw is also what I want, and in the case that the two cannot be obtained at the same time, I would rather give up the fish and have the bear's paw; Life is what I cherish, and righteousness is also what I cherish, and in the case that the two cannot be obtained at the same time, I would rather give up my life in favor of righteousness.

Here, Mencius compares life to a fish and righteousness to a bear's paw, believing that righteousness is more precious than life just as a bear's paw is more precious than a fish, which naturally leads to the proposition of "sacrificing life for righteousness". This assertion is the central thesis of the whole article. This article uses an analogy:

For the supply of the stack of good springs and pseudo-sickles metaphorical arguments, comparative arguments, example arguments and reasoning arguments.

That is, to guide the world to establish a life outlook of sacrificing one's life for righteousness, which is the purpose of this article.

"Fish I Want" is selected from "Mencius: Gaozi I", which discusses an important proposition of Mencius: righteousness is more important than life, and when righteousness and life cannot be both, life should be sacrificed for righteousness. It was Mencius who used his theory of sexual goodness as a basis for an in-depth discussion of man's view of life and death.

Let's see what others have to say.

The article begins with a fish and a bear's paw.

The metaphor first introduces the topic of "sacrificing one's life for righteousness" through "fish and bear's paws", then discusses the reasons for this, and uses hypothetical reasoning and general examples to discuss "righteousness exists", and finally, explicitly puts forward the idea that "(righteousness) is available to all people (the sage can not lose his ears)". The Qing Dynasty scholar Jiao Xun also wrote in "Mencius's Justice".

It is pointed out that the reason why Mencius repeatedly explains the reason here is to explain that "only if he has this conscience, he can be like this", and "if he repeatedly uses the conscience to understand that people must have this conscience". In the first paragraph of the article, the beginning of the article is "metaphorical" with fish and bear's paws, which leads to the central thesis: sacrificing one's life for righteousness.

Cautiously, he discussed the understanding or attitude of some people towards "sacrificing his life for righteousness", and finally "sublimated" the previous text with "not only the sage has a heart, everyone has it, and the sage can not lose his ears". As for the second and third sections, they are all examples of argumentation, respectively from the two aspects of "righteousness is more important than life" and "righteousness is more important than profit", and specifically demonstrate "sacrificing life to take righteousness".

Obviously, taking "(righteousness) everyone has it" as the main point of the article is not only possible to conform to Mencius's purpose in writing this article, but also to command the whole article in terms of ideas, and to take care of it before and after, in one go, and it is logical to smile and respect. Therefore, the author believes that "Fish I Want".

In China, Mencius focused on promoting the view that "everyone has (righteousness)".

Mencius, like Confucius, fully affirmed the importance of man's natural life, but he also saw that there may be contradictions between the natural attributes of human life and the social attributes. In the face of this contradiction, he, like Confucius, emphasized the priority of social morality. The difference is that Confucius focused on "benevolence", while Mencius focused on "righteousness", that is, the external manifestation of "benevolence".

The righteous should also be, that is, the behavior that is in line with benevolence. Confucius believed that "benevolence" was the highest value, while Mencius believed that "righteousness" was the highest value. According to Mencius's explanation:

Benevolence, the peace of man; Righteousness is the right path of man. (Mencius, Lilou Shang) "Benevolence, people's hearts; Righteousness, human road also. Mencius believed that benevolence refers to the kindness of people; Righteousness refers to the right path that people should take in action, that is, to practice goodness in action.

Mencius advocated that between righteousness and profit, we should sacrifice profit for righteousness. Mencius saw King Hui of Liang, and King Hui of Liang asked him: ".'Old man!

Thousands of miles away, there will also be Eli my country? 'Mencius said to the nuclear rush:'King!

Why bother? There is also benevolence and righteousness. 'When faced with the choice of life and death, Mencius clearly put forward the life value of sacrificing life for righteousness.

He said, "Fish, I do as I want; Bear's paws, as well as what I want; You can't have both, and you can't have both, and those who give up the fish and take the bear's paw are also. Life, also what I want; Righteousness is also what I want; You can't have both, and those who sacrifice their lives to take righteousness are also.

Mencius, Gaozi I).

In life, people are often faced with the situation of choosing between the two, and people often weigh the pros and cons, and choose one of the advantages and disadvantages. "Fish and bear's paws" are obviously more rare bear paws, and it is more than one to lose more and lose less to choose bear paws and give up fish, so people generally choose bear paws. In the choice of life and death, choosing life is more profitable than death, because "life" means hope, and "death" is the opposite, but in Mencius's view, when the existence of life is contrary to the value of "righteousness", "life" should be abandoned and "righteousness" should be taken.

He said, "I have what I want, and what I want is more than the living, so I don't want to get it; Death is also evil to me, and the evil is worse than that of the dead, so I have no way to get rid of it. Mencius believed that in such a situation one should not choose by the number of gains and losses, and that his so-called "desire is more than life" is benevolence and righteousness, and "evil is worse than death" is to betray benevolence and righteousness.

This kind of life value of "sacrificing one's life for righteousness" is obviously a development of Confucius's idea of "killing oneself to become benevolent", and it is a different expression of the same issue.

"Fish I Want" is from "Mencius: Confession I".

"Fish I Want" is a representative work of Mencius based on his theory of sexual goodness, and an in-depth discussion of man's view of life and death. Emphasis"Justice"than"Life"More importantly, it advocates sacrificing one's life for righteousness. Mencius was good and thought to himself"Everyone has a heart of shame"People should maintain their good nature, strengthen their usual cultivation and education, and not do things that violate etiquette.

Mencius regarded this thought as the essence of the traditional moral cultivation of the Chinese nation and had a far-reaching impact.