In both reading you can conclude that Mencius and Hsun Tzu oppose each other’s views on human nature. Mencius believes that human were inherently good, while Hsun Tzu thought that humans were born evil. Even though they both had different opinion they both were devoted Confucians. Confucianism is a system of rites, rituals, and social observances. Since Confucianism was divided between the questions of human nature there was not a right or wrong way to answer. This is how both men could both believe in Confucianism but have different opinions about the topic. This means both men believed people should follow rituals and traditions but had different uses of these rules. Mencius thought that with the right training people could go from good to
