Both Mencius and Xun-zi are Confucians who differently interpret the conception of human nature. It is described as something that we are born with and we develop with time. Even though Mencius and Xun-zi disagree in many aspects they agree in a variety as well. Everyone is born with the same set of characteristics such as feelings, pity, sense or right or wrong, compassion and other acts that lead every human being to be humane in a sense (De Bary 129). Human nature are good acts or bad acts done taken and may lead humans in choosing which action or decisions they want to take and what aspects they want to flourish in there life. Anyone is capable of taking good actions if they flourish the good side and do good actions in society, politics,
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They both agree when it comes to public policies and how people are being treated. Part of being a Confucian like them is that they share same thoughts or believes in which they believe that things such as “values, above all the devotion to learning, culture, and the possibility of human perfectibility” (159) is really important within human nature. Similar to Mencius, Xun-zi describes human natures characteristic and feelings that people are born with. Mencius describes good things in human beings in which they can take good decisions to act properly and Xun-zi describes that human beings are “evil” because “one is born with feelings of “envy and hate” (179), which leads conducting in such a way that is not good for them and people might be harm from their actions. The reason Xun-zi describes the nature of humans as something malicious is because everyone is born with the decision to be good or bad and some choose to pick the wrong decisions, which leads them to not having respect or compassion for others. Both fundamentally agree about “human and humane politics” (10/3/2016).
Human races are actions taken by humans that may lead to corruption of power when coming into politics. Kings or government may take advantage of the power they have and act in inhumane ways against others. Mencius describes a case, which involved a king that was governing badly. According to Magagna meniscus mentions a well detailed analogy of how the king governed badly (10/14/2016), in which he points out that the king is not doing a good job and is slowly deterring the life of people with raising taxes to create
They both agree when it comes to public policies and how people are being treated. Part of being a Confucian like them is that they share same thoughts or believes in which they believe that things such as “values, above all the devotion to learning, culture, and the possibility of human perfectibility” (159) is really important within human nature. Similar to Mencius, Xun-zi describes human natures characteristic and feelings that people are born with. Mencius describes good things in human beings in which they can take good decisions to act properly and Xun-zi describes that human beings are “evil” because “one is born with feelings of “envy and hate” (179), which leads conducting in such a way that is not good for them and people might be harm from their actions. The reason Xun-zi describes the nature of humans as something malicious is because everyone is born with the decision to be good or bad and some choose to pick the wrong decisions, which leads them to not having respect or compassion for others. Both fundamentally agree about “human and humane politics” (10/3/2016).
Human races are actions taken by humans that may lead to corruption of power when coming into politics. Kings or government may take advantage of the power they have and act in inhumane ways against others. Mencius describes a case, which involved a king that was governing badly. According to Magagna meniscus mentions a well detailed analogy of how the king governed badly (10/14/2016), in which he points out that the king is not doing a good job and is slowly deterring the life of people with raising taxes to create