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    King Xuan is capable of having compassion for his people — Carmelics
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    King Xuan is capable of having compassion for his people

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    • 1.King Xuan acted with compassion toward the ox
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    • 2.The capacity for compassion demonstrated in one case can be extended to relevantly similar cases through moral nurture
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    • 1.Compassion for a proximate, visible animal is driven by sensory immediacy, not a transferable moral disposition.
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    • 2.Mencius's own text shows Xuan substituted the ox for a sheep, suggesting avoidance of discomfort rather than extension of care.
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    • 3.A capacity that systematically contracts under political cost is not a genuine capacity for compassion toward the people.
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    • 1.Xunzi argues human moral dispositions require sustained ritual cultivation, not mere analogical extension from one emotional episode.
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    • 2.A ruler whose institutional role structurally rewards indifference to subjects lacks the formative conditions under which compassion becomes a stable virtue.
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    Much of what is fascinating in Mencius lies in his explorations of how moral learning takes place and how this learning might also interact with emotion. Consider now in combination the theme that the cognitive and affective go into the constitution of emotion and the theme that the emotional beginnings of morality can be extended through provision of the right kind of nurture. What is necessary for extension? Is cognitive extension, i.e., more moral knowledge, sufficient? The answer to this que
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