Works by and about Mencius

• Bai, Tongdong, 2008, “A Mencian Version of Limited Democracy,” Res Publica, 14: 19–34. (Scholar)
• Chan, Alan K. L. (ed.), 2002, Mencius: Contexts and Interpretations, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. (Scholar)
• Choi, Dobin, 2018, “Moral Artisanship in Mengzi 6A7,” Dao, 17(3), 331–348. (Scholar)
• Dai Zhen, 1777, Mengzi ziyi shuzheng. (Complete translation in Ewell [1990].) (Scholar)
• Ewell, John, 1990, Reinventing the Way: Dai Zhen’s Evidential Commentary on the Meanings of Terms in Mencius, doctoral dissertation, University of California at Berkeley. (An excellent translation of Dai [1777].) (Scholar)
• Gardner, Daniel K. (trans.), 2007, The Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. (Scholar)
• Graham, A. C., 1967, “The Background of the Mencian Theory of Human Nature,” Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, 6: 215–71. Reprinted in idem, Studies in Chinese Philosophy and Philosophical Literature, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990, pp. 7–66. (Scholar)
• Guo, Qiyong, 2007, “Is Confucian Ethics a ‘Consanguinism’?” Dao, 6.1 (March): 21–37. (See also the essay by Liu [2007], and the two special issues of Dao [7(1) (March 2008) and 7(2) (June 2008)] devoted to articles commenting on their exchange.) (Scholar)
• Ivanhoe, Philip J., 2002, Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mencius and Wang Yangming, 2nd edition, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, “Jeong Dasan’s Interpretation of Mengzi: Heaven, Way, Human Nature, and the Heart-mind,” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Special Issue, 8(1): 247–69. (Scholar)
• Lau, D.C. (trans.), 1970, Mencius, New York: Penguin. (Scholar)
• ––– (trans.), 2003, Mencius, rev. bilingual edition, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. (Scholar)
• Legge, James (trans.), 1970, The Works of Mencius, reprint, New York: Dover Books. (Scholar)
• Liu, Qinping, 2007, “Confucianism and Corruption: An Analysis of Shun’s Two Actions Described by Mencius,” Dao, 6(1) (March): 1–19. (See also the reply by Guo [2007], and the two special issues of Dao [7(1) (March 2008) and 7(2) (June 2008)] devoted to articles commenting on their exchange.) (Scholar)
• Liu, Xiusheng, 2003, Mencius, Hume, and the Foundations of Ethics, Burlintgon, VT: Ashgate Publishing. (Scholar)
• Liu, Xiusheng and Philip J. Ivanhoe (eds.), 2002, Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Mengzi, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. (Scholar)
• Mou Zongsan, 1970, Xinti yu xingti, 3 vols., reprint, Zhengzhong shuju. (Scholar)
• Nivison, David S., 1980, “Mencius and Motivation,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Thematic Issue S, supplement to Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 47(3) (September): 417–432. (The full version of the essay is reprinted in Nivison [1996e].) (Scholar)
• –––, 1996a, “The Paradox of ‘Virtue,’ ” in Nivison 1996e, pp. 31–44. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996b, “Philosophical Voluntarism in Fourth–Century China,” in Nivison 1996e, pp. 121–132. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996c, “Two Roots or One?” in Nivison 1996e, pp. 133–148. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996d, “ ‘Virtue’ in Bone and Bronze,” in Nivison 1996e, pp. 17–30.
• –––, 1996e, The Ways of Confucianism: Investigations in Chinese Philosophy, La Salle, Illinois: Open Court. (Scholar)
• Perkins, Franklin, 2021, Doing What You Really Want: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mengzi, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Schwitzgebel, Eric, 2007, “Human Nature and Moral Education in Mencius, Xunzi, Hobbes, and Rousseau,” History of Philosophy Quarterly, 24(2) (April): 147–168 (Scholar)
• Shun, Kwong–loi, 1997, Mencius and Early Chinese Thought, Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
• Tan, Soor-hoon, 2014, “The Concept of Yi (义) in the Mencius and Problems of Distributive Justice,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 92(3): 489–505. (Scholar)
• Tiwald, Justin, 2008, “A Right of Rebellion in the Mengzi?” Dao, 7: 269–282. (Scholar)
• Van Norden, Bryan W., 1997, “Mencius on Courage,” in Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, and Howard K. Wettstein, eds., The Philosophy of Religion, vol. 21 of Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, pp. 237–56. (Scholar)
• ––– (trans.), 2008, Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. (Scholar)
• Wong, David, 1989, “Universalism vs. Love with Distinctions: An Ancient Debate Revived,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 16(3–4): 251–272. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “Chinese Ethics,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2013/entries/ethics-chinese/>. (Scholar)
• Yearley, Lee H., 1990, Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)

Other Works Cited

• Angle, Stephen, 2012, Sagehood, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Angle, Stephen and Michael Slote (eds.), 2013, Virtue Ethics and Confucianism, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Chan, Joseph, 1999, “Confucian Perspective on Human Rights from Contemporary China,” in The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, Joanne R. Bauer and Daniel A. Bell (eds.), New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 212–237. (Scholar)
• Cline, Erin M., 2014, “Religious Thought and Practice in the Analects,” in Amy Olberding, ed., Dao Companion to the Analects, New York: Springer, pp. 259–91. (Scholar)
• de Sousa, Ronald, 2014, “Emotion” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2014/entries/emotion/>. (Scholar)
• Emerson, John J., 1996, “Yang Chu’s Discovery of the Body,” Philosophy East and West, 46:4 (October): 533–66. (Scholar)
• Graham, Angus C., 1989, Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China, La Salle, Illinois: Open Court. (Scholar)
• ––– (trans.), 1990, “Yang Chu,” in idem, The Book of Lieh–tzu: A Classic of the Tao, New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 135–57. (Scholar)
• ––– (trans.), 2001, Chuang–Tzu: The Inner Chapters, reprint, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. (Scholar)
• Hutton, Eric L. (trans.), 2014, Xunzi: The Complete Text, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Ivanhoe, Philip J., 2000, Confucian Moral Self Cultivation, 2nd ed., Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. (Scholar)
• Ivanhoe, Philip J. and Bryan W. Van Norden (eds.), 2005, Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, 2nd edition, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. (Scholar)
• Jeske, Diane, 2014, “Special Obligations,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2014/entries/special-obligations/>. (Scholar)
• Kim, Tae Hyun, and Mark Csikszentmihalyi, 2014, “History and Formation of the Analects,” in Amy Olberding, ed. Dao Companion to the Analects, New York: Springer, pp. 21–36. (Scholar)
• Kushner, Thomasine, 1980, “Yang Chu: Ethical Egoist in Ancient China,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 7 (5): 319–25. (Scholar)
• Liu, Shaoqi, 1939, How to Be a Good Communist, in vol. 1 of Selected Works of Liu Shaoqi, Beijing: Foreign Language Press [Available Online]. (Scholar)
• Makeham, John (ed.), 2003, New Confucianism, Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Nivison, David S., 1956, “Communist Ethics and Chinese Tradition,” Journal of Asian Studies, 16(1): 51–74. (Scholar)
• Parfit, Derek, 1979, “Is Common–Sense Morality Self-Defeating?” Journal of Philosophy, 76:10 (October): 533–45. (Scholar)
• Ridge, Michael, 2011, “Reasons for Action: Agent-Neutral vs. Agent-Relative,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/reasons-agent/>. (Scholar)
• Schwartz, Benjamin, 1985, The World of Thought in Ancient China, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. (Scholar)
• Sim, May, 2007, Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius, New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Slingerland, Edward, 2003, Confucius: Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. (Scholar)
• Tiwald, Justin and Bryan W. Van Norden (eds.), 2014, Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. (Scholar)
• Van Norden, Bryan W., 2007, Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy, New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “Wang Yangming,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/wang-yangming/>. (Scholar)
• Wang, Robin R. (ed.), 2003, Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture: Writings from the Pre–Qin Period through the Song Dynasty, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. (See the translation of the stories about Mencius’s mother on pp. 150–155.) (Scholar)
• Watson, Burton (trans.), 1996, Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Yu, Jiyuan, 2007, The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, “The ‘Manifesto’ of New Confucianism and Revival of Virtue Ethics,” Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 3(3) (September): 317–334. (Scholar)