Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius

ISBN-13: 9783031276187 / Angielski

Yang Xiao;Kim-Chong Chong

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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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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 Mencius

Carine Defoort 

Chapter 3 Mencius in the Han Dynasty

Paul R. Goldin

Chapter 4 The Mencius in the Context of Recently Excavated Texts

Franklin Perkins

Chapter 5 Mengzi’s Theory of Human Nature and Its Role in the Confucian Tradition

Bo XU

Chapter 6 Two Visions of Confucianism: Mencius and Xunzi

Siufu 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 Mencius

YONG HUANG

Chapter 9 ZHU Xi’s Appropriation of Mencius’s Thought: From a Hermeneutic to a Developmental Approach

Wing-cheuk CHAN

Chapter 10 Mencius and WANG Yangming

Zemian ZHENG

Chapter 11 Mencius and WANG Fuzhi 

Liangjian LIU

Chapter 12 Jeong Dasan’s Interpretation of Mencius: Heaven, Way, Human Nature, and the Human Heart

Philip J. Ivanhoe

Section III: Social and Political Thought 

Chapter 13 Mengzi’s View on the Public and the Private

Leheng LIU

Chapter 14 Mencius and Early Chinese Political Thought

Yuri Pines

Chapter 15 Mencius and the New Confucianism’s Pursuit of Democracy

Larry LAI

Chapter 16 Mencius’s Political Philosophy of Ren Government: Human Dignity and Distributive Justice

Sungmoon KIM

Chapter 17 Mencius and Political Rhetoric 

Douglas Robinson

Chapter 18 Hermeneutics in the Mencius: Methods, Context, Divergence

Chun-chieh HUANG

Chapter 19 Mencius and Japanese Confucian Philosophy 

John A. Tucker

Section IV: Ethics and Epistemology 

Chapter 20 Ming 命 and Acceptance

Kwong-loi SHUN

Chapter 21 MOU Zongsan’s Interpretation of Mencius’s Moral Philosophy

Ming-huei LEE

Chapter 22 Eudaimonism in the Mencius: Fulfilling Human Nature

Benjamin I. Huff

Chapter 23 Is Mencius a Consequentialist? Rethinking the Relationship between Yi (Righteousness) and Li (Benefit) in the Mencius

Xiangnong HU

Chapter 24 Mencius’s Theory as a System of the Gongfu to be Human and to Live a Good Human Life

Peimin NI

Chapter 25 Epistemology in the Mencius

Waldemar Brys

Section V: Moral Psychology and Moral Development

Chapter 26 Feeling, Reflection, and Reasoning in the Mencius

David B. Wong

Chapter 27 Mencius on Moral Psychology

Myeong-seok KIM

Chapter 28 The Mencian Triplet of Ceyin Zhi Xin: Perceptive, Affective, and Motivational

Jing Iris HU

Chapter 29 Mencius’s Moral Psychology and Contemporary Cognitive Science

Bongrae SEOK

Section VI: Mencius and Western Philosophers: Comparative Studies

Chapter 30 Mencius and Augustine: A Feminine Face in the Personal, the Social, and the Political

Ann A. Pang-White

Chapter 31 Self-determination and the Metaphysics of Human Nature in Aristotle and Mencius

May SIM 

Chapter 32 Mencius and Aquinas

Lee H. Yearley

Chapter 33 Mencius and Hume

Dobin CHOI

Chapter 34 Mencius, Dewey, and “Developmental” Human Nature

Jim Behuniak

O autorze

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).