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Mencian Hermeneutics (Paperback)
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Considered second only to Confucius in the history of Chinese
thought, Mencius (371?-289 b.c.), was a moral philosopher whose
arguments, while pragmatically rooted in the political and social
conditions of his time, go beyond particular situations to probe
their origins and speculate on their larger implications. His
writings constitute a living tradition in China and the world at
large. Sinological studies of Mencius have long emphasized
philological and archaeological research, situating the texts
mainly in Chinese history. Critical appraisal of the texts lends
itself to Western traditions of interpretation. In Mencian
Hermeneutics, Chun-chieh Huang utilizes both approaches to offer a
historical and universal understanding of Mencius.Huang builds from
the premise that Mencius' thinking and all Chinese thought are
sociopolitical in tone and humanistic and metaphysical in nature
and range. The strength of Mencius' thought lies in the organic
mutuality of these factors. His arguments are shaped by the
politics, literature, and economics of his age. At the same time,
the concrete programs he proposed and his sharp criticisms of
alternative policies are rooted in the metaphysical soil of man and
the world, human solidarity and cosmic symbiosis, and human nature
within the natural world. The book is divided into two parts. Part
1 analyzes the concrete as opposed to the theoretical character of
Mencius' thought. Huang demonstrates the organic unity of his
intellectual system with its concepts of linkage between innermost
to outermost, self to social, rightness vs. profit, and his
political ideal of populist government through familial empathy.
Part 2 deals with the long historical odyssey of Mencius' work in
China's interpretive tradition, an exegetical process similar in
its origins to Western hermeneutics.In comparing and analyzing
these approaches to Mencius, Huang seeks to show that Chinese
hermeneutics is more than an activity of intellectual curiosity
about the ancient world, but is instead a means to sociopolitical
action, an application in society of the fruits of personal
cultivation. Mencian Hermeneutics will be of interest to Chinese
area specialists, sociologists, literary scholars, and
philosophers.
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