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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and scholarly., November 26, 2000
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bryan12603 (Poughkeepsie, NY USA) - See all my reviews
Everyone in the West has heard of Confucius. But in East Asia, Mencius is known as the "second sage" of Confucianism, and has been almost as influential.

This book is a serious scholarly study of Mencius as a philosopher. Shun (a professor in the philosophy department at U.C. Berkeley) carefully argues for his interpretations of key terms and claims in the sayings of Mencius, always considering the intellectual context in which Mencius thought and lived. Shun has well-defended positions regarding Mencius's views on the key virtues (benevolence, righteousness, wisdom and propriety), and the relationships among the human heart-mind, human nature, and ethical cultivation.

This is a real tour de force as a work of scholarship, although it may be heavy going for the general reader at times.

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Mencius and Early Chinese Thought
Mencius and Early Chinese Thought by Kwong-loi Shun (Hardcover - April 1, 1997)
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