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    Conflicts of duties can arise within Mencius's ethical framework

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    • 1.People are owed concern in virtue of their being human
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    • 2.Parents are owed special concern in virtue of being the source of one's life and nurturance
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    • 3.These two distinct sources of concern can generate competing obligations
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    • 1.In Mencius's framework, ren (benevolence) operates through graduated love, so stronger obligations to parents do not conflict with weaker obligations to strangers—they are ordered by design.
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    • 2.A framework that ranks obligations hierarchically by relational proximity resolves apparent conflicts through priority rules rather than generating genuine moral dilemmas.
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    • 1.Mencius grounds ethics in the cultivation of moral sprouts (duan), where the developed sage perceives the contextually correct action without experiencing genuine duty-conflict.
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    • 2.Following the Neo-Confucian reading of Wang Yangming, moral knowledge and moral action are unified in the cultivated person, making apparent conflicts symptoms of insufficient virtue rather than structural features of the framework.
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    Two issues arise from this response to Mohism as he understood it (whether he understood it correctly will be addressed in section 3). One issue is whether Mencius has sufficient warrant to trust the kinds of intuitive judgments he attributes to human nature. Mencius holds that the beginnings of morality are sent by Heaven, but in the absence of such a metaphysical warrant, can these intuitive judgments be accepted, particularly the ones that underwrite care with distinctions? Doubt about the me
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