A man of humanity

If one claims that he is a man of humanity, then he must be open to possibilities of being a man of humanity. He must know the qualities of being a man in order to call himself a fully humane person. Now, what are these qualities of being a man that could determine him as a man of humanity?

First, a man is to love man. There are two types of relationships in which a man is to satisfy in order to show his love. One is the relationship of a parent and a child. In this kind of relationship, the child will know how to love if his parents was able to show it to him. His attitude outside of the house is a reflection of what was being shown to him inside their house. If the child learns to reciprocate the love of his parents, then he has passed the first type of relationship in showing his love. Now, if the child learns how to love his parents, then it would be easy for him to build the second type of relationship. The other relationship is of a husband and a wife. This type of relationship is used to represent the idea of equality among men. That a man is equal to the other. Since a man grew with love, then the man is sincere and honest in offering himself towards another man. The idea of sincerity and honesty are the products of love.

Second, a man is to show goodness. It was in Analects 6:17 that tells a man is born good. When a man is born, he is innocent and of no bad intention. If a man grows with evil, it is because he failed to see the goodness in the world. He may grew up seeing evil because he was raised to practice seeing evil and that he became ignorant to this goodness that he was intended to do. In order for man to realize his being born with goodness, Confucius said that the man must be cured through educating him. It is through education that he learns to awaken the goodness in him making him see and so act this goodness. The teaching however will only be effective if the man himself is willing to learn to see good and therefore act with goodness.

Last aspect of being man of humanity is being with the whole humanity. This is to say that he must live and be at peace with humanity. It is through his living with and for others that he will know what it is to be fully a humane person. Since the man is living with and for humanity, humane person must be willing to listen and understand the possibilities that the others are saying. He must let others speak. Also, since he is living with and for humanity, then he must learn to trust them. Trusting them is a way of showing that the man is at peace with them and that his intentions are pure.

In order for a man to be called a man of humanity, he must know the qualities of being a humane person which are a man is to love man, a man is to show goodness, and a man is to live with and for humanity. Knowing these doesn't just end there but through putting them into action, calling the self as a man of humanity may be possible.