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

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.