... Mencius' concept of human dignity in the Chinese Confucian moral tradition, focused on the context of long-term care. The double nature of Mencius' notion of human dignity as an intrinsic quality of human beings qua being human is analyzed and contrasted with the dominant Western account of human dignity...

..., the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment Period. It considers the relevant works of several ancient thinkers including Mencius, Plato and Cicero and suggests that they provided significant lessons and laid the essential foundations for developments that eventually would result in international human rights law...

... and kindness, an exemplary person is expected to practice benevolence along with wisdom, courage, righteousness, and courteousness (Analects, 2.24, 14.4, 14.28; Mencius, 3.6, 13.21). They are supposed to read widely and have a high level of self-control as guided by rituals...

...This chapter examines how Confucians prefer a society that produces a more exalted level of order. This higher level is achieved by means of rituals, which operate as an institutional mechanism for the regulation of society. The chapter also analyzes the differences between Mencius and Xunzi...

...This concluding chapter reviews how the book reconstructed the political vision offered in the three Classical Confucian texts: the Analects, Mencius, and Xinzu. For a long time, the Chinese intellectual tradition did not receive academic interest...

... contends that the true spirit of Confucianism should be located in the earlier pre-Qin Confucians such as Mencius and Xunzi, who attempted to find a middle way between the sacred and the secular. It states that a Confucianism backed by a transcendent foundation could not be widely accepted in a modern-day...

... Friedrich ren仁 consummate person or conduct soul compassion de Waal Frans Islam Mengzi Mencius Plato sprouts siduan四端 xin心 heart mind empathy junzi consummate person morality wuwei無為 non coercive action Cook Ding Zhuangzi the text Squyres Steven Graham A C uncarved block pu樸 Zhuangzi ego...

...This chapter lays out the reasons for trying to understand Mencius by attributing a consequentialist moral theory to him. This is meant in part as an oblique criticism of readings on which he is construed as a “virtue ethicist.” It is also meant to be something of a reply to Chad Hansen's (1992...

... harming life material force Analects Book of Odes fishing interpenetration principle yi Haewŏl Kihwa Mencius Shun emperor Vinaya Yao emperor Buddhism Cheng Hao Cheng Yi ten grave precepts Zhu Xi hunting nothingness Yijing alcohol clothing donation wealth hells hon paek souls...

...Mencius 孟子 (c.391–308 BCE) and his text have exerted a profound influence on the Confucian tradition. The meaning of Mencius’s philosophy, however, has always been contested. The core message of the Mencius was debated not long after the text was composed...

...0 27 03 2003 Separated from Confucius by several generations, Mencius (fourth century B.C.) saw himself as being charged with carrying on and defending the Confucian religious vision in a new and largely hostile intellectual milieu. In the book that bears his name, we find him responding...

...0 27 03 2003 The Zhuangzian ideal of wu-wei resembles in certain respects that of Mencius, in that it represents a state in which one’s actions are perfectly harmonized with one’s “natural,” spontaneous inclinations. But whereas Mencius understands the “natural” in terms of human hierarchies...

... moral motivation Xunzi coordination benevolent government renzheng Dong Zhongshu Han dynasty Legalism Mencius moral well being Buddhism centralizing project dao tung filial piety Koryŏ dynasty material well being moral self cultivation Wood Alan Xiaojing The Book of Filial Piety Zhao...

...,” and this renders the alternative egalitarian conception of human dignity a far more plausible normative foundation for contemporary Confucian political theory, making Confucian constitutional democracy the only legitimate institutional arrangement. After thoroughly investigating Mencius’s and Xunzi’s accounts...

... the Analects of Confucius, the text of Mencius, the Great Learning (Daxue), and the Mean (Zhongyong). The latter two texts had been selected out of a much larger compilation, the classic Record of Rites. The chapter...

...This chapter examines how Wu Zhao and her rhetoricians skillfully marshaled four widowed mothers, lifted from Biographies for Exemplary Women, to the empress' considerable advantage: Lady Ji of Lu, the mother of Mencius, the mother of General Zifa of the state of Chu...

... of nonvoters, the neglect of the interests of the minority, and the irrationality of voters. Then the chapter shows how the “internal” solutions are inadequate. Next, this chapter constructs a Confucian hybrid regime that is based on Mencius’s ideas discussed in Chapter 2, and shows how it can address...

... this relatively uncharted territory of embodied moral psychology from the perspective of Confucian philosophy. In particular, I focus on affective resonance and embodied response of Mencius’ ceyin zhi xin 惻隱之心 (the heartmind of pity and compassion) and discuss how Confucian moral philosophy...

...Confucius (551–479 bc) solidified Confucianism as a school of philosophy. Mencius (372–289 bc) took it to a deeper level. Being human-centric is essential to both. Classic Confucianism focuses on the cultivation of the self as a way of bringing forth a better society filled...

...The chapter provides an analysis of Mencius’s “four sprout” theory of human nature, and the beginning of a critical comparison of Mencius’s moral psychology with Jonathan Haidt’s moral foundations theory, also called “five modules” or “moral modularity.” According to Mencius the there are four...