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The 31 pages that link to Mencius, each with the reason it gives.

• ConfucianismRelated: Mencius developed Confucian ethics by defending the moral potential of human nature.

• ConfuciusRelated: Mencius developed Confucius’s ethical tradition through a distinctive defense of human moral potential.

• Mandate of HeavenRelated: He made popular welfare a powerful test of whether a ruler retained Heaven’s approval.

• Warring States periodRelated: He urged rulers to win allegiance through benevolent government amid interstate competition.

• Filial pietyRelated: His thought connects family affection with the growth of broader moral concern.

• Neo-ConfucianismRelated: His account of moral tendencies became a foundation for debates about nature and learning.

• Chinese philosophyRelated: His defense of Confucian moral cultivation developed a major account of human nature.

• Dynastic cycleRelated: His account of political legitimacy helped explain why a ruler who failed the people could be overthrown.

• Han YuRelated: Han Yu promoted Mencius as a key transmitter of the Confucian moral tradition.

• Wang YangmingRelated: Wang drew on Mencius’s account of innate goodness to explain moral knowledge.

• Self-cultivationRelated: His account explains cultivation as nurturing moral capacities already present in human nature.

• TianRelated: He connected Tian’s moral order with human nature and the people’s political judgment.

• Lu stateRelated: Mencius later treated Lu and Confucius’s lineage as sources of Confucian authority.

• Lu JiuyuanRelated: Lu drew on Mencius’s account of inward moral knowledge.

• YangmingismRelated: His account of moral potential provides a key precedent for innate knowing.

• Su QinRelated: His career belongs to the same era of court debate over how states should govern and survive.

• Yang ZhuRelated: Mencius presents Yang Zhu as a rival whose self-regard neglects the world.

• Mou Tsung-sanRelated: Mou’s account of moral mind draws on Mencius’s claim that ethical awareness is rooted in human nature.

• Tang Chun-iRelated: Tang drew on Mencian moral psychology in his account of the mind’s ethical potential.