后人耻于言利的观念 ,往往追根到孟子 ,这是对孟子“利”的思想的误解。从《孟子》书中义与利的关系和孟子轻利的时代背景分析 ,孟子所轻之利是违义之利 ,是自私自利 ,且只针对当时的君主官吏纵私欲、坑百姓的行为而言 ;通过孟子的乐利主义和利民主义思想 ,可见孟子真的利观并非轻利 ,甚至相反 The descendants’ sense of propriety is often misunderstood by Mencius, which is a misunderstanding of Mencius’s “profit”. From the relationship between justice and profit in the book of Mencius and the background of the age of Mencius, the light interest of Mencius is the benefit of illegality and the selfishness of selfishness. In terms of Mencius’s doctrine of lexicon and populism, Mencius’s true and favorable outlook is not light and even opposite