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Ep. 314: Mengzi (Mencius) on Moral Psychology (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Uncomfortableness of Mencius

There's a way of speaking, you know, storytelling, first person, declarative kind of presentation. And so when I'm reading through Mencius, which is much less poetic than someone like Latsu, and so in that way sort of less sacred texty. Is it just a bolder different way of speaking about these things that has refined over time that I'm used to? Or is there something unique about the tradition?

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