... for its publication, the appearance of this volume is most welcome, as it encapsulates the wide variety of contemporary analytical perspectives on the Mengzi (Mencius) text and its place in the Confucian tradition and Warring States thought generally. The perspectives on the Mengzi presented...

... as forms of virtue ethics and consequentialism. (Van Norden also prefers the monikers “Kongzi” and “Mengzi” for Confucius and Mencius.) Two aspects of the interpretation that mark it as distinctively philosophical are (1) the presentation of early Chinese texts as sets of philosophically systematic...

... variety of contemporary analytical perspectives on the Mengzi (Mencius) text and its place in the Confucian tradition and Warring States thought generally. The perspectives on the Mengzi presented in this volume are too diverse to discuss individually, but some patterns of analysis do emerge. One...

... in both China and the West: Nivison documents the fact that Confucius, Mozi, Mengzi, Xunzi, Wang Yangming, and Dai Zhen addressed the issue of whether a sincere commitment to the Way was sufficient to guarantee right action, and that this is related to the problem of "weakness of will" familiar to Western...

... sophisticated reading of the often-quoted ad hominem criticism of a Zisi/Mengzi faction in the Xunzi. It is in the Mengzi, explored in chapter 3, that conceptual and metaphorical parallels with Wuxing become most apparent, rst in its acknowledgment of virtue as material and measurable, but more importantly...

... good traditions along with bad. He concludes that feminist and Confucian ethics have common concerns, but differ because Confucians revere tradition while feminists want to change it. A Confucianism that included feminism would be radicalized in fundamental ways. The fascinating third chapter, "Mengzi...

... in the portrayal of Zisi in Warring States versus Han narratives. He thus provides a context for a more sophisticated reading of the often-quoted ad hominem criticism of a Zisi/Mengzi faction in the Xunzi. It is in the Mengzi, explored in chapter 3, that conceptual and metaphorical parallels with Wuxing become...

... in the Kangxi emperor's hand, is on a placard over the main door of the Hall of Great Completion (Dacbeng dian) in the Beijing Kong temple. 2This epitaph which is an elliptical rendering of Mengzi 2A.2 that reads [zi you] shengmin [yiiai] weiyou [Kongzi] appears over the main entrance to the Dacheng dian...

... it is difficult to tell what his objections are. To my knowledge, none of them consider Mengzi's account of renxing “in abstraction from the process and location of its growth.” Ivanhoe has argued in two works (neither of which Behuniak cites) that the agricultural metaphors Mencius uses specify active, visible...

... brings Descartes into dialogue with Buddhist philosopher Nagasena and Hobbes with Mengzi, and last but not least, he shows how a wide swath of Western ethics philosophers do not adequately answer questions that the neo-Confucians Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming do. The point of this chapter is to show...

... on fajia ; pp. 149, 249). The latter point is particularly pertinent to Jiang's book. His discussion is focused overwhelmingly on texts that are traditionally associated with a single author—from the Analects of Confucius, through Mozi, Mengzi , Laozi , fragments of Shen Buhai 申不害 and Shen Dao's 慎到...

... Confucians addressed them is an important contribution to scholarship in multiple fields of study. In Ing's study, there is ample consideration of content from the Analects , the Mengzi , and the Xunzi , which receive the most attention from scholars. His examination extends beyond them, however...

...). Yet one need not construct an omnibus course just by tacking the Mengzi and Bhagavad Gita onto a selection of all-Western classics, or just by assigning a thin smattering of “representative” works from a wide range of complex traditions. Instead, one can present a collection of classics from...

... the Warring States period to the end of the Eastern Jin dynasty. In chapter 2, Lee studies the early portrait of Yang Zhu as contextualized by such early Chinese texts as Mengzi , Yang Zhu , and Mozi . Lee focuses on the concept of quan 權 (expediency) in all three of these texts to contrast...

..., “The Reifying Pattern,” explores the concept of ming 命, which Valmisa parses as “fate.” She uses case studies from Mengzi and The Way of Tang and Yu to develop an account of ming /fate as unknowable and uncertain, a condition of existence that is impersonal and that provokes feelings of helplessness...

.... For example, Mohist versions of the legends show a systematic stressing of the low social status of worthy ministers and the wisdom of rulers in recognizing them. The Mengzi shows more interest in the elite levels of society. The Hanfeizi is concerned with the cynical pragmatics of maintaining power, while...

... portions of the Analects, as well as the writings of Mengzi and Xunzi, to discover how the chief epistemological concern of Confucianism, knowledge of the authentic self, came to direct early exegesis of the Odes. This claim was expressed in the phrase shi yan zhi [the Odes articulate aims]. In his...

... with their alleged adversaries, such as Mengzi (Mencius). He problematizes categories such as Confucian and Daoist, pointing out that these thinkers are all too frequently set apart from each other by overdistinctive labels (p. 94). He also argues convincingly that mystical interpretations of texts...

... display of Confucian moral principles, and finally as a self-contained, closed text, itself imbued with moral significance. Chapter 3 revisits the later portions of the Analects, as well as the writings of Mengzi and Xunzi, to discover how the chief epistemological concern of Confucianism, knowledge...

... to texts such as the Mengzi and the Zuo zhuan: the period following the transfer of the Zhou capital to Luoyang in 771 BCE was, as the story goes, a time of political and cultural disintegration; of rampant local presumption, luxus, and rebelliousness; and of efforts on the part of far-sighted nobles...