Pacific Affairs, March 22nd, 2003
ETHICS IN THE CONFUCIAN TRADITION: The Thought of Mengzi and Wang Yangming, Second Edition. By Philip J. Ivanhoe. Indianapolis (Indiana): Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2002. xvii, 243 pp. US$34.95, cloth, ISBN 0-87220-598-3; US$12.95, paper, 0-87220-597-5. As revealed by the subtitle of the book and the thematic titles of five of its seven chapters (e.g., "Human Nature," "Self Cultivation" and "Sagehood"), each of which is subdivided into a Mengzi section and a Wang Yangming section, this enlightening book is a comparative study of the moral and metaphysical theories of these two luminarie...
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