Mencius
Arguments built from questions, analogies, and carefully staged replies. Track the speaker and test how each conclusion follows.
How to read this work
Follow the exchange beyond a memorable sentence. A ruler’s question, an everyday example, an agreed response, and a revised conclusion often form a sequence. Watch words such as 心, 性, 仁, 義, 利, and 王 change their force with the grammatical role and the speaker’s aim. The collection is especially useful for testing whether a translated inference is written explicitly or supplied by context.
- What answer is the interlocutor invited to grant before the main conclusion?
- Which feature of an analogy is relevant, and what objection or limitation appears nearby?
- How does the passage move between individual response, sustained conduct, and public action?
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14 received half-books
The portal follows fourteen received half-books in its source files. Its smaller passage blocks do not always coincide with familiar edition section numbers or complete arguments. Read neighbouring blocks, retain the source attribution, and avoid presenting the collection as a modern systematic treatise with every term fixed once for all.
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