By reading and interpreting the Mencius, one can have a more comprehensive understanding of traditional Chinese cultural thought, including Mencius' own philosophical ideas, while simultaneously gaining profound insig...
Iam not an expert in Confucian or Mencius’thought,but I am intensely interested in the history of civilizations,their evolution,and their application to the challenges and opportunities we face today.In New Zealand,o...
Quoting an ancient proverb by Mencius-"Preserve yourdignityas anobody;promote social welfare as a somebody"-Meng Liang,Chair of the Mencius Foundation and a 79th-generation descendant of Mencius,shared with Beijing Re...
As a critical component of Confucianism,the thought of Mencius received its reputation as second only to the thought of Confucius himself in importance.Stephen C.Angle(2022)argued that one innovation of the Mencius is...
Confucius,Mencius,and Xunzi were representatives of pre-Qin Confucian scholars.Confucius,founder of Confucianism,took ren(benevolence)as the core,yi(righteousness)and li(propriety and rituals)as the wings.These three ...
Mengzi maintained that both benevolence (ren 仁)and rightness (yi 義)are naturally-given in human nature. This view has occupied a dominant place in Confucian intellectual history. In Mencius 6A, Mengzi's interlocutor...
The late Zhou of China and the Classical age of Greece both saw great impetus in intellectual thought and were marked by intense warfare. Being closely linked to warfare in antiquity, sports was a vital, commonplace a...
With the guidance of reception theory, based on the corpus of James Legge, the LCC and D. C. Lau's versions of Mencius, a comparative study will be conducted on the key philosophical term: Ren. After comparison, reaso...
This article is a response to Morality And Law In A Global Society: A Place For Natural Law Theory? The first part is a summary and comments on Honorable Rollin A. Van Broekhoven's survey of the natural law traditi...