Philosopher · Classical antiquity · China
Xunzi
c. 310–c. 235 BC
Chinese Confucian thinker who answered Mencius by teaching that human nature is bad and must be shaped by ritual and teachers. Two of his students, Han Feizi and Li Si, built Legalism. He lived about 310 to 235 BC.
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- Born
- About 310 BC, in the state of Zhao, China.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Xunzi
- Died
- About 235 BC.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Xunzi
- School
- Confucianism, its realist wing.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Xunzi
- Known for
- The claim that human nature is bad, that ritual reshapes it, and that Heaven is just nature running its course.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Xunzi
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