Mengzi, strategic language, and the shaping of behavior.

Philosophy East and West | April 1, 2008| | Copyright

The Mengzi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (Mencius) text provides a rich account of Mengzi's conversations with various interlocutors, and in these interactions Mengzi often makes claims that appear to stake out positions on a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of human nature, the status of moral motivation, and the appropriate ways to govern a state and to treat others.

In what follows, I want to introduce a way of reading the Mengzi that complicates how we understand Mengzi's relationship to the seemingly obvious content of what he is ...

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