Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Section I: Mencius in the Classical Context (Pre-Qin to the Han Period).- Chapter 2 Unravelling the Connections Between the Mozi and the Mencius.- Chapter 3 Mencius in the Han Dynasty.- Chapter 4 The Mencius in the Context of Recently Excavated Texts.- Chapter 5 Mengzi's Theory of Human Nature and Its Role in the Confucian Tradition.- Chapter 6 Two Visions of Confucianism: Mencius and Xunzi.- Chapter 7 Mencius, Zhuangzi and "Daoism".- Section II: Mencius and Neo-Confucianism.- Chapter 8 CHENG Hao and CHENG Yi's Appropriations of the Mencius.- Chapter 9 ZHU Xi's Appropriation of Mencius's Thought: From a Hermeneutic to a Developmental Approach.- Chapter 10 Mencius and WANG Yangming.- Chapter 11 Mencius and WANG Fuzhi.- Chapter 12 Jeong Dasan's Interpretation of Mencius: Heaven, Way, Human Nature, and the Human Heart.- Section III: Social and Political Thought.- Chapter 13 Mengzi's View on the Public and the Private.- Chapter 14 Mencius and Early Chinese Political Thought.- Chapter 15 Mencius and the New Confucianism's Pursuit of Democracy.- Chapter 16 Mencius's Political Philosophy of Ren Government: Human Dignity and Distributive Justice.- Chapter 17 Mencius and Political Rhetoric.- Chapter 18 Hermeneutics in the Mencius: Methods, Context, Divergence.- Chapter 19 Mencius and Japanese Confucian Philosophy.- Section IV: Ethics and Epistemology.- Chapter 20 Ming and Acceptance.- Chapter 21 MOU Zongsan's Interpretation of Mencius's Moral Philosophy.- Chapter 22 Eudaimonism in the Mencius: Fulfilling Human Nature.- Chapter 23 Is Mencius a Consequentialist? Rethinking the Relationship between Yi (Righteousness) and Li (Benefit) in the Mencius.- Chapter 24 Mencius's Theory as a System of the Gongfu to be Human and to Live a Good Human Life.- Chapter 25 Epistemology in the Mencius.- Section V: Moral Psychology and Moral Development.- Chapter 26 Feeling, Reflection, and Reasoningin

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).