Mencius (Annotated)

The Mencius is one of the foundational texts of Confucian thought, a collection of dialogues, debates, and moral reflections centered on the cultivation of humane government and the innate tendencies of human nature toward goodness. Written in lucid, rhetorically vigorous prose, it combines anecdote, analogy, political counsel, and ethical argument. As part of the later Confucian canon, it develop...