Tang Junyi on Mencian and Mohist Conceptions of Mind. In Contemporary Confucians of the Chinese University, Cheng Chung Yi, ed. New Asia Academic Bulletin 19 (October 2006): 203–33.
Tang Junyi (T'ang Chun-i 唐君毅) was among the founders of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the first chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUHK, an influential scholar of Chinese philosophy, and one of the leaders of the New Confucian movement. In this article, I take issue with the line of interpretation he develops in a provocative 1955 study of Mencius and Mozi. Though I don't make the connections explicit, Tang's views and my critique of them are relevant to issues in contemporary discussions of action and motivation, particularly the debate between motivational Humeanism and anti-Humeanism. The pdf file indicates the original pagination of the journal article.
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若夫乘天地之正而御六氣之辯以遊無窮者，彼且惡乎待哉!—〈逍遙遊〉
Now were one to mount the norms of heaven and earth, riding the fluctuations of the six qì, and thus wander in the limitless, how would that person's activity be contingent on anything! — Zhuāngzǐ, “Meanderingly Wandering"
臣之所好者道也，進乎技矣。
— 庖丁
What I'm keen on is dào. It goes beyond skill.
— Páo Dīng
不知周之夢為胡蝶與？胡蝶之夢為周與？...此之謂物化。
I wonder, is it that Joe dreams of being a butterfly, or that the butterfly dreams of being Joe? ...This is what's called "things transform."