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

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The Taoist Critique of Moism

Van Norden: Confucianism is this foreign thing, its external is the social standards that are trying to mold you into something that you're really not. I know one of the people he actually does talk about, he talks about the Moists, which the Confucian critique of Moism is exactly that thing. The other person that is referred to as Young Jew who in the Van Norden intro, he talked about, I don't know if we have texts of him, but anyway, he had this view of ethical egoism.

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