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Text 1 Mèngzǐ 孟子 6A.11
The Mèngzǐ (Mencius) is a text of the late fourth century B.C. that purports to record the
words and deeds of the second of the great Confucian philosophers Meng Ke 孟軻. The
selection below is from the sixth of the text’s seven books and expresses Mencius’s basic
Confucian commitments.
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