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    It is not the case that Conflicts of duties can arise within Mencius's ethical framework

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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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    • 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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