Stingy King Meets Savvy Sage: Rethinking the Dialog between King Xuan of Qi and Mengzi.
While the traditional interpretation takes Mengzi 孟子 to be trying to persuade King Xuan 宣 of Qi 齊, I take him to be manipulating King Xuan with insincere flattery. My interpretation has several advantages. On the traditional interpretation, Mengzi is naïve about King Xuan's motives, and confused abo...
| Publicado en: | Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 371 - 390 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2020
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