Research Emotivism Virtue Ethics Mencius

This paper tries to explain the essence of Mencius’s moral philosophy is a kind of virtue ethics theory; the one different from Aristotle’s rationalism virtue ethics, which is actually a kind of sentimental virtue ethics.Mencius’s sentimental virtue ethics is based on the "four heart" where moral start from such as "sympathy" as theoretical basis, which argues that value evaluation and moral principles of people come from "natural" natural emotion.to the "four heart", is the "sympathy" as theoretical basis, value evaluation and the moral principle that people come from people born with natural emotion; And on the basis of constructing the virtue standard evaluation and value evaluation system. According to Mencius’s sentimental virtue ethics, a person’s behavior is moral, if and only if this behavior reflects the actors’benevolence or virtue. Because of ethical behavior is in the virtue which from human emotion. There fore, the main means of educating people to abide by the code of conduct of virtue is the embodiment of the self discovery self-improvement through inner introspection, found and protection "sympathy" good roots, and cultivating magnanimous.Mencius’s sentimental virtue ethics is later in Confucian moral philosophy, and set the direction for the development of Confucian moral person. The basic characteristics of serious study of Mencius sentimental virtue ethics for us to deeply understand and grasp the later. Confucian moral philosophy development stages have important theoretical significance. Mencius’s sentimental virtue ethics and Contemporary Western sentimental virtue ethics is extremely similar, but the time is it tow thousand years earlier, it reveals the essence of moral emotion doctrine,for the philosophical tradition of mainstream Western rational rather than emotional is undoubtedly and make up an important complement. To study and understanding of Mencius’s sentimental virtue ethics also has important practical significance for today’s moral construction, moral education is effective from cultivating people, especially young people with good quality, starting from the cultivation of people’s love of the heart, Especially young people with good quality, starting from the cultivation of people’s love of the heart, because according to Mencius’s sentimental virtue ethics, people’s moral behavior are derived from the people’s "sympathy" and benevolence, for individuals, the most effective means is not the external law of education, but inwardly "else""thinking" and "raise". Therefore, whether in theory or practice, Mencius’s sentimental virtue ethics thought is worthy of study and reference.