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Two millennia ago, Mencius declared that profit was a bad thing. Describe the two opposing views on the question of money versus morality. Which do you think better describes Chinese culture as you know it?
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Two millennia ago, Mencius declared that profit was a bad thing. Describe the two opposing views on the question of money versus morality. Which do you think better describes Chinese culture as you know it? According to the conversation of Mencius and the King Hui of Liang, it was quite obvious telling that Mencius believed that a person's motivation was what mattered. The best specific example of Mencius' stress on the importance of motives is the idea of profit. He was highly suspicious of anything done with the goal of profit in mind. He also believed that money and morality should not go together in name, since there must exist an area of where you would lose 'benevolence' of the sake of money. However, Mencius never said that it was wrong or bad to profit. He only said that one should not "say" (not "speak of" or "mention") the word "profit."...
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