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Mencius and Early Chinese Political Thoughtcipation in political life. Tensions and frustrations aside, Mencius succeeded to position himself as the most devoted leader of the Warring States-period men-of-service. This ensured him the lasting role as a source of inspiration for the imperial literati.

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Unravelling the Connections Between the , and the other. However valuable, these narratives tend to rely on the same interpretative choices that have become solidified into hardly questioned facts. Inspired by a “hermeneutic of informed ignorance,” this paper tries to unravel a number of alternative interpretations from the same texts. The focus is

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Mencius in the Han Dynasty that many of the passages considered crucial today were rarely, if ever, cited in the Han. These include the parable of the infant about to fall into a well (2A.6), the debate with a Mohist named Yi Zhi 夷之 (3A.5), and the concept of . 良知 (7A.15), which, since Wang Yangming 王陽明 (1472–1528), has been

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The , in the Context of Recently Excavated Textsring the mid to late Warring States Period. This chapter attempts to summarize the main significance of these texts for understanding the ., focusing on how they deepen our understanding of the core of Mencius’s philosophy – his claim that our natural dispositions (. 性) are good. The main part of th

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Mengzi’s Theory of Human Nature and Its Role in the Confucian Traditionve moral power, and contains philosophical implications. Mengzi made use of metaphors and analogies such as water, plants, and dogs to illustrate his ideas and theory of human nature vividly. All of these helped him to compete with the ideas of others such as Gaozi and SHI Shuo. Many ideas of his st

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Two Visions of Confucianism: Mencius and Xunzirements of Confucian ethics and politics. Their major disagreement lies in the strategies they use to justify Confucianism. Mencius believes that Confucian ethics and virtues (and politics by extension) are grounded in human nature. The Heavenly-endowed qualities of human beings both explain and mot