Mencius (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Mencius

 
9780140449716: Mencius (Penguin Classics)
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ISBN 10: 014044971X ISBN 13: 9780140449716
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2004

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Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended and expanded. The Mencius, in which he recounts his dialogues with kings, dukes and military men, as well as other philosophers, is one of the Four Books that make up the essential Confucian corpus. It takes up Confucius's theories of jen, or goodness and yi, righteousness, explaining that the individual can achieve harmony with mankind and the universe by perfecting his innate moral nature and acting with benevolence and justice. Mencius' strikingly modern views on the duties of subjects and their rulers or the evils of war, created a Confucian orthodoxy that has remained intact since the third century BCE.

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Mencius (372-298 BC) was one of the greatest Chinese philosophers, focusing on political theory and practice. Mencius, like Confucius, believed that rulers were divinely placed in order to guarantee peace and order among the people they rule. Unlike Confucius, Mencius believed that if a ruler failed to bring peace and order about, then the people could be absolved of all loyalty to that ruler and were justified to revolt.


D. C. Lau is a Professor at the University of Hong Kong.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
014044971X
ISBN 13 
9780140449716
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Anzahl der Seiten
304
Herausgeber
Lau D. C.
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