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This book is about the philosophical, historical, and interpretative aspects of Mencius. It explores his influence, reception, and relevance in China from the third century BCE to the present, as well as offers comparative studies of Mencius and major figures in the history of Chinese and Western philosophy. With 34 accessible articles written by leading philosophers and scholars, the Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius provides both broad pictures and in-depth discussions regarding the work of one of the most important and influential Chinese philosophers. It covers his normative ethics, meta-ethics, political philosophy, epistemology and moral psychology. The last section of the volume, “Mencius and Western Philosophers: Comparative Perspectives,” explicitly puts him in dialogue with major Western philosophers. The Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius serves as an essential volume for college students, graduate students, and scholars who study and teach Mencius as well as Chinese philosophy and comparative philosophy in general.​   

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Author:   Yang Xiao ,  Kim-chong Chong
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Volume:   18
Weight:   1.250kg
ISBN:  

9783031276187

ISBN 10:   3031276183
Pages:   715
Publication Date:   12 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Kim-chong CHONG Section I: Mencius in the Classical Context (Pre-Qin to the Han Period)  Chapter 2 Unravelling the Connections Between the Mozi and the MenciusCarine Defoort  Chapter 3 Mencius in the Han DynastyPaul R. Goldin Chapter 4 The Mencius in the Context of Recently Excavated TextsFranklin Perkins Chapter 5 Mengzi’s Theory of Human Nature and Its Role in the Confucian TraditionBo XU Chapter 6 Two Visions of Confucianism: Mencius and XunziSiufu TANG Chapter 7 Mencius, Zhuangzi and “Daoism”Kim-chong CHONG  Section II: Mencius and Neo-Confucianism Chapter 8 CHENG Hao and CHENG Yi’s Appropriations of the MenciusYONG HUANG Chapter 9 ZHU Xi’s Appropriation of Mencius’s Thought: From a Hermeneutic to a Developmental ApproachWing-cheuk CHAN Chapter 10 Mencius and WANG YangmingZemian ZHENG Chapter 11 Mencius and WANG Fuzhi Liangjian LIU Chapter 12 Jeong Dasan’s Interpretation of Mencius: Heaven, Way, Human Nature, and the Human HeartPhilip J. Ivanhoe Section III: Social and Political Thought  Chapter 13 Mengzi’s View on the Public and the PrivateLeheng LIU Chapter 14 Mencius and Early Chinese Political ThoughtYuri Pines Chapter 15 Mencius and the New Confucianism’s Pursuit of DemocracyLarry LAI Chapter 16 Mencius’s Political Philosophy of Ren Government: Human Dignity and Distributive JusticeSungmoon KIM Chapter 17 Mencius and Political Rhetoric Douglas Robinson Chapter 18 Hermeneutics in the Mencius: Methods, Context, DivergenceChun-chieh HUANG Chapter 19 Mencius and Japanese Confucian Philosophy John A. Tucker Section IV: Ethics and Epistemology  Chapter 20 Ming 命 and AcceptanceKwong-loi SHUNChapter 21 MOU Zongsan’s Interpretation of Mencius’s Moral PhilosophyMing-huei LEEChapter 22 Eudaimonism in the Mencius: Fulfilling Human NatureBenjamin I. Huff Chapter 23 Is Mencius a Consequentialist? Rethinking the Relationship between Yi (Righteousness) and Li (Benefit) in the MenciusXiangnong HU Chapter 24 Mencius’s Theory as a System of the Gongfu to be Human and to Live a Good Human LifePeimin NI Chapter 25 Epistemology in the MenciusWaldemar Brys Section V: Moral Psychology and Moral Development Chapter 26 Feeling, Reflection, and Reasoning in the MenciusDavid B. Wong Chapter 27 Mencius on Moral PsychologyMyeong-seok KIM Chapter 28 The Mencian Triplet of Ceyin Zhi Xin: Perceptive, Affective, and MotivationalJing Iris HU Chapter 29 Mencius’s Moral Psychology and Contemporary Cognitive ScienceBongrae SEOK Section VI: Mencius and Western Philosophers: Comparative Studies Chapter 30 Mencius and Augustine: A Feminine Face in the Personal, the Social, and the PoliticalAnn A. Pang-White Chapter 31 Self-determination and the Metaphysics of Human Nature in Aristotle and MenciusMay SIM  Chapter 32 Mencius and AquinasLee H. YearleyChapter 33 Mencius and HumeDobin CHOI Chapter 34 Mencius, Dewey, and “Developmental” Human NatureJim Behuniak

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Yang Xiao is Professor of Philosophy at Kenyon College. He has been the book review editor of Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy since 2005, and was the president of International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy in 2014-7. He is the co-editor of Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy: David Wong and His Critics (2014). Kim-chong Chong is Professor Emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He also taught at the National University of Singapore from 1980-2003. He is the author of Early Confucian Ethics: Concepts and Arguments (2007), and Zhuangzi’s Critique of the Confucians (2016). He is also the editor of Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi (2022).

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