"Emotional Control and Virtue in the "Mencius
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9214699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manyul Im (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy East and West (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8221 • E-ISSN: 1529-1898 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1400114 |
| OpenAlex | W1969575926 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
What are the attitudes that a person should take toward her fellow creatures and how does one acquire these attitudes? In the Mencius (Meng Zi T)1' we find answers to these questions that sound familiar in some ways but which, I argue, are unique and not as they have seemed to most interpreters of the text. In particular, I take issue in this essay with something that seems very much taken for granted in Mencius scholarship: that according to the Mencian view, active emotional cultivation is both desirable and necessary for full moral development. Mencius takes the possession of attitudes that have their source in the human
Control (management) · Economics · Epistemology · Management · Virtue · Chinese history and philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology
The Analects and Moral Theory
Guodian
Commitment in the rational relativist perspective and zhi 志 in early Confucianism
Shame, Vulnerability, and Change
Virtuous actions in the Mengzi
Extending Kindness
Neutral but not in the middle
What Causes Moral Actions? -----Moral Feelings and Moral Reasoning in Mencius
Part 2
Surrendering to and Transcending Ming 命 in the Analects, Mencius and Zhuangzi
| Citations per year | 0.59 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |