The follower of Confucianism, Mencius argued for the infinite goodness of the individual, believing that it was society's influence – its deficiency of the caring cultivating influence – which induced bad character. He potentially argued that it was acceptable for humans to overthrow or stamp out a ruler world health organization ignored the population's needs & ruled harshly. Mencius argued that individual beings come natural by having an unconditioned conscience which society has corrupted, & that a goal of moral cultivation is to link to to of these's unconditioned morality.

Mencius' interpretation of Confucianism has usually been considered a orthodox version by subsequent Chinese philosophers, especially a Neo-Confucians of the Song dynasty. A Mencius (likewise spelled Mengzi or even Meng-tzu), a book of his conversations by using kings of the instance, is one of the four books that form the core of orthodox Confucian thought process. Within direct contrast to a locution of Confucius which are then short & self-contained, the Mencius consists of yearn dialogues, by using extensive prose.

Mencius spoke often & extremely of the well-field system.