From "I want what I want", from "Mencius Gao Zi", the author may be Mencius. Mencius and Gao Zi were both from the Warring States period. Mencius holds the theory of good nature (people are born with the power to be good), while Gao Zi holds the theory of no good and no evil (that is, people are born with no distinction between good and evil). Starting with their arguments, Gao Zi concentrated on Mencius' theory of human nature, moral outlook and related theories.

The full text (excerpt) is as follows:

What people want is nothing more than life. Why not use people who can live? What makes people worse than the dead, so why not avoid the patients? If you are right, you will be born without asking, and if you are right, you will be free from suffering and inaction.

A bowl of rice, a bowl of soup, you can live if you get it, but you will starve if you don't get it. But with disdain to drink and eat, hungry pedestrians are unwilling to accept it; Kick others' food with their feet, and beggars will not accept it.

The translation is as follows:

If people love more than life, what means can be used to survive? If people don't hate things more than death, what can be used to avoid disaster? You can survive by some means, but some people refuse to use it; Some methods can avoid disaster, but some people refuse to adopt them.

It can be seen that what they love is beyond life (that is, "righteousness"); What they hate is something beyond death (that is "injustice"). Not only sages have this nature, everyone has it, but sages can do it without losing it.

Words are explained as follows:

What you want: What you want. Yes, I can.

Concurrency: both. So: conjunctions indicate cause and effect, so.

G: If you can. Suffer: misfortune, disaster.

Extended data:

This paper discusses that sacrificing one's life for righteousness is the essence of human beings.

This paper makes good use of metaphor and begins to use metaphor to derive the central argument, so that the truth of "sacrificing one's life for righteousness" is clear and easy to understand; It is also very vivid to use the metaphor of "blessed are those who walk in the street" and "beggars are disdainful". Contrast is also the remarkable feature of this paper.

In the first paragraph, fish and bear's paw are on the same page, and life and death are on the same page. They all use similar sentence patterns to compare related meanings, so that people can understand what should be affirmed and what should be denied at a glance. The third paragraph compares "Xiang" and "Jin" and highlights the problems to be explained. In addition, rigorous argumentation and in-depth layers are also the characteristics of this paper.

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