PHILOS 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tao Te Ching, Taoism, Confucianism
5 Apr 2016
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The feeling of compassion is benevolence, the feeling of disdain is righteousness, the feeling of respect is propriety, the feeling of approval and disapproval is wisdom. Virtues are portrayed as dispositions to actions that are rooted in feelings/emotional states. Does not mean that people are born virtuous. A claim in the world of developmental psychology/linguistics. Doesn"t mean they"re born knowing how to speak. They have very strong dispositions to develop or create language that need not depend on external teaching. Mencius" example: a child falling into a well. Even if there is no promise of reward benevolence wanting what is good for another person (attitude) plus wisdom about what is actually good for another person (skill) ex: king spares an ox. Benevolence is only one aspect of our nature. Name translates as old man or old teacher . More controversially, he trained (or even was) the buddha.
