Overview
- Covers the philosophical, historical, religious, and interpretative aspects of Mencius, one of the most important and influential Chinese philosophers
- Provides both broad pictures and in-depth discussions regarding the philosophy of Mencius
- Serves as an essential companion for college and graduate students, and scholars who study and teach Mencius as well as Chinese philosophy and comparative philosophy in general
Part of the book series: Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy (DCCP, volume 18)
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Mencius in the Classical Context (Pre-Qin to the Han Period)
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Mencius and Neo-Confucianism
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius
Editors: Yang Xiao, Kim-chong Chong
Series Title: Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27620-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27618-7Published: 12 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27620-0Published: 11 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2211-0275
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8780
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 715
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Non-Western Philosophy, Religious Studies, general, Ethics, Political Philosophy