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Article: Mencius and Early Chinese Thought.(Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- April 1, 1999
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By KWON-LOI SHUN. Stanford: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. 295. $45.
Although "ethics" does not appear in the title, Kwong-Loi Shun's Mencius and Early Chinese Thought is an analysis of ethics in the Mencius. Shun's goal is to "further our understanding of the Confucian perspective on the ethical life" (p. 8). His painstakingly careful presentation of passages of Mencian ethics certainly achieves this aim.
The book is the first of a projected three-volume set. It is to be followed by another, similarly philological, volume and a final volume devoted to philosophical issues. Shun's topics include yi (tentatively glossed as "propriety") and its ...