Which of the Following Best Explains Mencius's View of How

question 696

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best explains Mencius's view of how to cultivate virtues?

• A) Practice resisting your nonvirtuous urges and pay attention to proper ritual behavior, and your nonvirtuous urges will eventually fade away, leaving only virtuous inclinations.
• B) Delight in exercising certain natural inclinations, such as the inclination to serve your parents, and those inclinations will inevitably grow into virtues.
• C) Find other people who are morally better than you and adopt those people as role models. As you practice acting like them, you will gradually become virtuous.
• D) Through careful study of ritual behavior, you can come to recognize what behavior is called for in any situation, which will enable you to act virtuously.

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