Han Yu's "Way" or Tao consists of benevolence, righteousness, morality and virtue, including the father-son relationship, and even more, those aspects impacting the daily lives of the common people. Ko Ching-ming places Han Yu alongside Mencius and Sun Yat-sen as a scholar whose thinking began with concern for the masses.
韓愈心中的道，包括仁義道德，包括君臣父子的綱倫，更包括涉及百姓一切日用的生活問題。柯慶明認為韓愈是介於孟子與國父之間，一個以國家百姓出發的學者。