13. The Trembling Ox: Mengzi and the Compassionate Heart

In the text that bears his name, Mengzi ("Mencius") holds that the human heart-mind is the wellspring of goodness.

• I. Bloom (trans.), Mencius (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009).

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• I. Bloom, “Mencian Arguments on Human Nature (Jen-Hsing),” Philosophy East and West 44 (1994), 19-53.

• A.K.L. Chan (ed.), Mencius: Contexts and Interpretations (Honolulu: 2002).

• A.C. Graham, Studies in Chinese Philosophy and Philosophical Literature (Albany: 1990)

• F. Perkins, Doing What You Really Want: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mengzi (New York: 2022).

• B. Seok, Embodied Moral Psychology and Confucian Philosophy (Lanham: 2013).

• K.L. Shun, Mencius and Early Chinese Thought (Stanford: 1997).

• Y. Xiao and K.C. Chong (eds), Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Mencius (Dordrecht: 2023).