Mencius

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Chinese Confucian philosopher who taught that people are innately good and that one's nature can be enhanced or perverted by one's environment.

proper noun Western name of 孟子 Meng Zi or Meng Tzu, also known as Meng Ko or Meng Ke, (dates uncertain, ?372 - 289 BCE or perhaps 385 - 303/302 BCE), Chinese philosopher, follower of Confucius.

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Mencius is almost a libertarian, and he considers libertarianism the most refined form of modern antinomianism:

The truth about left and right « Isegoria 2008
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The only solution is a higher power « Isegoria 2008
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The Hitler Anomaly « Isegoria 2008
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England does not deserve pride « Isegoria 2008
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There has never been a successful right-wing insurgency « Isegoria 2008
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The Inverted Pendulum of Whiggery « Isegoria 2008
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April « 2008 « Isegoria 2008
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True History of the American Revolution « Isegoria 2008
` I am of the house of the learned Meng-Tse whom the barbarians call Mencius!

Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955
In addition to delivering the best synopsis and analysis of Western History since 1500, he essentially predicts the emergence of ideas such as Mencius 'formalism.

P. J. O'Rourke has Competition, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009