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Mencius [a] (MEN-shee-əs; c. 371 – c. 289 BC) was a Chinese Confucian philosopher, often described as the Second Sage (亞聖) to reflect his traditional esteem relative to Confucius himself. He was part of Confucius's fourth generation of disciples, inheriting his ideology and developing it further.
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Noting that the term Chengming or rectification of names only appears once in the Analects, and not at all in Mencius, Sinologist Herrlee G. Creel argued for its further earlier development through "Legalist" Shen Buhai (400–337 BC) for the same reasons. However, as Creel himself argued, Shen Buhai has Confucian elements and is largely ...
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Mencius (371–289 BC) formulated his teachings directly in response to Confucius. The effect of the combined work of Confucius, the codifier and interpreter of a system of relationships based on ethical behavior, and Mencius, the synthesizer and developer of applied Confucianist thought, was to provide traditional Chinese society with a ...
Mencius's sites- Meng family mansion 孟府, Temple of Mencius 孟廟, and Cemetery of Mencius 孟林. Temple of Yan Hui; Zhu Xi (朱熹) (October 18, 1130 – April 23, 1200), was a Chinese Confucian scholar philosopher and government official of Song dynasty China, who was influential in the development of Neo-Confucianism
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