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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...
- 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...
- Western intentionalist hermeneutics. This concept of interpretation, termed "Mencian literary criticism", is seen as having dominated the methodology of literary...
- with Yiguandao (normally under the title of "Society for Confucian and Mencian Morality"), Dejiao (Religion of Virtue) and Tiandijiao (Religion of the...
- the 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- "North-of-the-Charles" school (Tu Weiming and his Harvard colleagues) emphasizes "Mencian humaneness and expresses with new subtlety the Confucian worry that the...
- Oriental Culture at Nankai University to primarily study Confucian and Mencian thought and Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianism. This proposal received support...
- 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...