This man used the example of compassion, shame, reverence, and moral value felt toward a child falling down a well to illustrate the Four Beginnings.
his man related how a king ordered that a sheep be sacrificed in place of an ox for the consecration of a bell. This man's mother, a prominent role model, once responded to his truancy by cutting a cloth she had been weaving. This man used the example of compassion, shame, reverence, and moral value felt toward a child falling down a well to illustrate the Four Beginnings. The last of the Four Books is a collection of conversations with this man, an extreme optimist with respect to human nature, who studied under Zi Si. This scholar of the fourth century BCE was often called the "Second Sage." For 10 points, name this second greatest Confucian after Confucius himself.
his man related how a king ordered that a sheep be sacrificed in place of an ox for the consecration of a bell.
Mencius [or Meng Zi]