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Mencius (MEN-shee-əs; c. 371 – c. 289 BC) was a
Chinese Confucian philosopher,
often described as the
Second Sage (亞聖) to
reflect his
traditional esteem...
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Schwartz (1985), p. 216.
Palmer (1996), p. x. Ames,
Roger T. (1991), 'The
Mencian Concept of Ren Xing: Does it Mean
Human Nature?' in
Chinese Texts and Philosophical...
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Western intentionalist hermeneutics. This
concept of interpretation,
termed "
Mencian literary criticism", is seen as
having dominated the
methodology of literary...
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Yiguandao (normally
under the
title of "Society for
Confucian and
Mencian Morality"),
Dejiao (Religion of Virtue) and
Tiandijiao (Religion of the...
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capacity to be good, even
though they are not all good.
According to
Mencian theory,
human nature contains four
beginnings (端; duan) of morality. It...
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Graham (1967) and Chan (1996) Graham, A.C. 1967. "The
Background of the
Mencian Theory of
Human Nature."
Tsing Hua
Journal of
Chinese Studies 6, 1967....
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should understand how it
affects friendship. The
first and most
frequent Mencian teaching is that a
ruler should develop his de as a
means of controlling...
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Oriental Culture at
Nankai University to
primarily study Confucian and
Mencian thought and Song
Dynasty Neo-Confucianism. This
proposal received support...
- "North-of-the-Charles"
school (Tu
Weiming and his
Harvard colleagues)
emphasizes "
Mencian humaneness and
expresses with new
subtlety the
Confucian worry that the...
- he
deems morality man-made; rather,
there are
feelings (not
unlike the
Mencian Sprouts) that
exist in all humans, and it is up to
human will to act upon...
