Articles and Chapters
- Wong, DB, "Moral Sentimentalism in Early Confucian Thought",
in Ethical Sentimentalism New Perspectives, edited by Debes, R; Stueber, K
(September, 2017),
pp. 230-249, Cambridge University Press.
(last updated on 2024/03/28)
Abstract: Sentimentalism. in. Early. Confucian. Thought. David. B. Wong. This essay is an
exploration of what Mencius (fourth century BCE) and Xunzi (fourth and third
centuries BCE) in the classical Confucian tradition have to say about cultivating
goodness in persons.1 One of the benefits of such an exploration is that it can
help us go outside well-worn Humean and Kantian grooves of thinking about the
relationship between reason on the one hand and desire and emotion on the
other hand.
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