Mencius (with CD-ROM)

Author: Cai Zhizhong
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: If Confucian thought was integrated and pioneered by Confucius, then the credit for promoting it should go to Mencius. During the Han Dynasty, Zhao Ji revered Mencius as the "second sage of the world with great talent"; the great Confucian scholar Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty wrote a book praising Mencius for truly inheriting the essence of Confucius, using his eloquence to refute heresies and erroneous arguments, profoundly influencing later generations, calling him "second only to Yu in merit," and developing into a representative of new Confucianism, the second master of Confucianism; the Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty compiled the "Four Books" (including the Analects, Mencius, Great Learning, and Doctrine of the Mean) into the Collected Annotations on the Four Books, further elevating Mencius's status; the Yuan cultural master then called Mencius the "Second Sage of Zou."