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Article: James Behuniak, Jr. Mencius on Becoming Human.(Book review)

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James Behuniak, Jr. Mencius on Becoming Human. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xxviii, 186 pp. Hardcover $40.00, ISBN 0-7914-6229-3.

In Mencius on Becoming Human James Behuniak, Jr., offers a comprehensive portrait of a Mencian theory of the person, mounted on the framework of a process ontology. His initial cue is the pervasiveness of the botanical metaphor underlying the Mencius' discussions of human development, and the argument opens with a provocative analogy comparing individuals in the Mencian view to the beautifully varied trees that grow today in the temple of Mencius in Shandong.

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