alt.hn

6/18/2026 at 4:09:54 PM

Mencius (2016)

https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iuswrrest/api/core/bitstreams/265d73a0-6bfa-45df-92ff-4e7d3f8be4b1/content

by jruohonen

6/23/2026 at 11:50:19 PM

  > The name Mencius, like the name Confucius, is a Latinized version of a Chinese name.
  > Mencius’s real name was Meng Ke 孟軻. (He is referred to by this name only once in the
  > Mencius, in 1B.16.) Mencius’s disciples referred to him as “Master Meng,” which in Chinese was “Mengzi,” turned into “Mencius” by European interpreters of Chinese culture two thousand years after his death.

i had always wondered about that!

this book looks super interesting and well written, i think i may be my new daily read

by andrekandre

6/20/2026 at 3:17:31 AM

Relevant:

When I hear biased speech, I can tell what has obscured the man’s understanding. When I hear excessive speech, I can tell what trap the man has fallen into. When I hear deviant speech, I can tell where the man has strayed. When I hear evasive speech, I can tell at what point the man has exhausted his reasons. When these defects are born in the mind they bring harm to self-governance, and when proclaimed as policies of state, they bring harm to its affairs. If a sage were to arise again, he would surely affirm what I say

P40

This follows that allegory which argues against thinkpieces that inspire DOGE. That said, exhausting reason may not always be a bad (a more biased word for "negative") thing?

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