Good Beyond Evil (chinois traditionnel et anglais)
Xunzi on human nature
Auteur(s)
Xunzi (0313?-0238? av. J.-C.)
Xunzi (0313?-0238? av. J.-C.)
Editeur(s)
Hermits United
Hermits United
Date de parution :
01/08/2023
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Ean :
9781739115623
Pages :
64
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Résumé
A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are born evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the same Mencian conclusion: moral education is paramount for society to function, and the ruler should be meritorious, protecting the people. This makes Xunzi a Confucianist, though Han Fei and Li Si, his students, were to subvert Confucian principles. From Xunzi, Mingyuan Hu selects and translates three treatises, ‘Men Are Naturally Evil, Their Goodness a Matter of Cultivation’, ‘Human Demeanour, All Too Human Demeanour, Not at All Becoming’ and ‘Water Carries the Boat; Water Overturns the Boat’, illustrating his argument.