Mencius and Xunzi on Xing (Human Nature)

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Sung, Winnie
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2020
• الموضوعات: Humanities::Philosophy; Human Nature; Confucian Ethics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144894
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

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 that, for Menci...