‘The Most Influential Philosopher In World History Whom You Have Probably Never Heard Of’

“Although Mengzi” – or Mencius, as the Jesuits Latinized his name – “was born long after Confucius died, he is referred to as the ‘Second Sage’ because he shaped the form that Confucianism would take for the next two millennia, not just in China, but also in Korea, Japan and Vietnam.”