Session Five: Mencius on Cultivating the Sprouts of Our Humanity

Second only to Confucius in the history of Confucianism, Mencius (Mengzi) famously argues that humanity is fundamentally good—but that we must cultivate the sprouts of our humanity in the way that a good gardener cultivates a garden. We’ll examine those fundamental potentials of who we are and how we might go about making them blossom.

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