Mencius
c. 372 BCE – 289 BCElived
Zou, State of Zou
- Confucianism
Argued that human nature is originally good and that a ruler who fails his people forfeits the right to rule, a claim that would be quoted at Chinese emperors for two millennia.
Known for
- innate goodness
- the four sprouts
- the mandate of heaven
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.