This paper discusses Confucian notions of moral autonomy and moral agency that do not
follow strict and ideal notions of autonomy that one can find in many Western theories of …

This article reconstructs grounds for Mengzi's view that moral self-cultivation, or the process
of" nourishing the heart"(yangxin 養心), depends largely on minimizing the desires of the …

For Mencius, shame is the human way of existing in a virtuous disposition and concretely
manifests not only as the self-affirming of the passion of shame in the action of stopping …

This chapter explores Mencius's view on the kind of effort that is needed to attain a state in
which one is fixated on propriety. In Mencius 2A: 2, Mencius claims that he attained the …

There is a shift afoot in the global semantics of identity, and the previously dominant
paradigms of sincerity and authenticity as proposed by Lionel Trilling are being supplanted …

This article examines the problem of mental partitioning and mental conflict in Han 漢
dynasty sources. It begins by outlining two Greek psychological models—the Platonic …