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    A superior person must regard the well-being and parents ... — Carmelics
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    A superior person must regard the well-being and parents of one's friends as one regards one's own well-being and parents.

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    • 1.Being a superior person in the world requires treating others' interests as one's own.
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    • 2.Treating the parents of one's friends as one's own parents is the standard of impartial caring.
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    • 1.Partiality toward one's own parents is not a moral defect but constitutive of filial piety, which Confucian ethics treats as foundational to all virtue.
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    • 2.Equalizing care for friends' parents with care for one's own parents dilutes the special obligations that give familial relationships their moral weight.
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    • 3.Bernard Williams' integrity objection shows that agent-neutral demands can destroy the personal commitments that make a life morally coherent.
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    • 1.Mozi's doctrine of jian ai (impartial caring) was explicitly rejected by Mencius as incompatible with graded human affection rooted in human nature.
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    • 2.If the claim requires treating friends' parents identically to one's own, it collapses into the Mohist impartialism Mencius himself argued produces moral disorder.
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    • 3.A standard that demands equal regard across relationships of unequal intimacy cannot be universally acted upon without undermining the social fabric Mencius sought to preserve.
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    Mencius viewed himself as a defender of the Confucian tradition, and saw the two major contemporary threats to that tradition as the doctrines of Mozi and Yang Zhu: “the doctrines of Yang Zhu and Mozi fill the world. If a doctrine does not lean toward Yang Zhu, then it leans toward Mozi. Yang Zhu is ‘for oneself.’ This is to not have a ruler. Mozi is ‘impartial caring.’ This is to not have a father. To not have a father and to not have a ruler is to be an animal” (Mengzi 3B9; Van Norden 2008, 85
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