Archive for October, 2019

Xunzi

Thursday, October 31st, 2019

Introduction The Mencian claim that human nature is good eventually became the accepted position in Confucianism, but for over twelve hundred years the question was disputed with the followers of Xunzi (??) who argued the opposite: that human nature was essentially bad. Xunzi, whose name was actually Xún Kuàng (??,) is ...