# Mencius (@mencius)

Mencius, or Mengzi (fourth century BCE), was a Confucian thinker who argued that human nature tends toward goodness and rulers owe material and moral care to the people.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Mencius's public record._

## Topics

- [Argument and Legacy](/@mencius/argument-and-legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Benevolent Government](/@mencius/benevolent-government.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Human Nature](/@mencius/human-nature.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mencius/
- blog: https://ctext.org/mengzi
- blog: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cphi/hd_cphi.htm

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "mencius", "question": "…"}`.