What are the "four roots of capacity and nature"?

• 主要作者: CHAN, Alan Kam Leung
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• 主題: Asian Studies; Philosophy
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/312; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1311/viewcontent/Roots_WisdomChinaWest_pv.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

During the third century C.E., a debate on the relationship between “capacity” (cai 才) and “nature” (xing 性) captured the imagination of the Chinese elite. Historical sources relate that four views were put forward on the subject, which continued to dominate the intellectual scene during the fourth...