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Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius

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Editors:
  1. Yang Xiao

    1. Philosophy Department, Kenyon College, Gambier, USA

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  2. Kim-chong Chong

    1. Professor Emeritus, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Kim-chong Chong
    Pages 1-21

  3. Mencius in the Classical Context (Pre-Qin to the Han Period)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Unravelling the Connections Between the Mozi and the Mencius

      • Carine Defoort
      Pages 25-47

    3. Mencius in the Han Dynasty

      • Paul R. Goldin
      Pages 49-61

    4. The Mencius in the Context of Recently Excavated Texts

      • Franklin Perkins
      Pages 63-78

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

      • Bo XU
      Pages 79-98

    6. Two Visions of Confucianism: Mencius and Xunzi

      • Siufu Tang
      Pages 99-118

    7. Mencius, Zhuangzi and “Daoism”

      • Kim-chong Chong
      Pages 119-135
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About this book

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.​   

Editors and Affiliations

  • Philosophy Department, Kenyon College, Gambier, USA

    Yang Xiao

  • Professor Emeritus, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

    Kim-chong Chong

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).

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