孟子字義疏證

A close, evidential commentary on Mencian passages that analyzes key terms and distinctions—principle (li), feeling (qing), human nature (xing), and the mind’s clarity—while weighing competing schools of thought. The author argues that moral discernment arises from the heart-mind’s capacity to perceive normative patterns, critiques later thinkers who treat principle as an independent entity apart from feeling, and defends study as the way to expand moral clarity. The text separates bodily desires grounded in qi from ethical sense, warns against mistaking private opinion for objective principle, and links moral psychology to practical governance and social policy.