This article introduces and analyses the debate between Mencius and Xunzi on xing 性 (human nature). While Mencius claims that xing is good, Xunzi claims that xing is bad. A common way of interpreting these two different claims is to determine the scope of xing . It is generally agreed ...
Human nature and virtue in Mencius and Xunzi: An Aristotelian interpretationGiven the substantial amount of ink that has been poured over the issue ofrnhuman nature in Xunzi ~ and Mencius ~q~, it might appear to be recklessrneven to think that there is anything new to say about it .1 ...
This paper aims to deconstruct the good and evil of human nature,a traditional idea for over two thousand years,and also the debate between Mencius and Xunzi. This paper thinks that the traditional inference made a mistake in the premise,namely,regarding the concept that belongs to uncertainties...
NDPR Sungmoon Kim Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics: The Political Philosophy of Mencius and Xunzi(Reviewed by Tim Connolly, East Stroudsburg University) “Confucian political theory offers a normative vision for contemporary societies that draws on concepts from thinkers in the Chinese philosophical tra...
The Differences in Views About Human Nature - Mencius and Xunzi Mencius believed that human nature is good. Every person is born instilled with four main virtues; Righteousness, Ritual property, Wisdom and Benevolence. These virtues will only develop fully if it is nurtured and put to effect app...
(I’m not saying that this is a bad thing, it’s just a different thing from what we find in the Mozi and, sometimes, the Xunzi.) Justin, I think you’re right that the virtue of the people is part of the mix, and that this is in part because of the view that most of us ...
Both Mencius' theory of original good of human nature and Xunzi's theory of original evil of human nature take Confucius' theory of human nature as source of their thought.Their differences mainly lie in that their conceptual connotation of human nature are different.As faithful representatives of...
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