Study On Xunzi’s “Becoming Full-Grown” Thought

To discuss human issues,we must first solve the essential issues of human beings.The question of human nature is related to the question of human nature.The discussion of human nature is also linked to a more fundamental question in Confucian philosophy,that is,the question of "what is a person",and "what is a person" is closely related to the self-realization of individuals,while Confucian "adult" thinking It is a response to this fundamental problem.Following Confucius and Mencius,Xunzi put forward his own "adult" thought on the basis of Confucian "adult" thought.However,unlike Confucius and Mencius,in addition to affirming people’s internal moral cultivation,Xunzi pays more attention to the individual’s acquired efforts.In his view,human nature has no definition of good and evil.The emergence of evil is the result of the intemperance of "obedience",and the process of removing evil requires the transformation of evil to achieve good,and the only way to good is Realize true goodness through inner heart and outer courtesy to perfect the individual’s self-realization.In this process,the evil in human nature is not the end but the starting point.A person’s inner exertion of the subject’s initiative is the inner driving force for the continuous pursuit of self-moral maturity in order to achieve his own inner perfection.The ultimate goal at the individual level is embodied as "adult",so as to achieve a complete,pure and beautiful personality.As far as the realization of "adult" is concerned,although Xunzi said that "a person who is Tu can be a Yu",the choice of individual consciousness is affected by multiple conditions and is not the same.Therefore,in the process of the individual’s internal self-realization,“adults” also involve the inner choice of the subject of will,taking“aspiration” as the inner basis for the realization of “adults”,and accumulating learning and ritual and music education as the realization of “adults”.External approach.It can be said that "adult" is not only the realization of inner virtue,but more importantly,the continuous dynamic process of individual self in practice,and this process runs through human life from beginning to end.Xunzi’s "adult" thought has many content to construct the spiritual and cultural construction and development of contemporary society,thereby providing impetus for the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.Strengthening the cultivation of personality and realizing the pursuit of one’s personality are not only the problems to be solved in the Xunzi era,but also the major and unavoidable real problems faced by individuals in our society today.