On Xunzi's Thoughts Of Paideia

Paideia means shaping human's space of spirit, bettering the life of mind and making the reason, emotion and will in harmony with each other. That is to say, by paideia, people will enhance themelves from a blind life to a reasonable one, from special state to universal state. As a celebrated thinker, Xunzi also pays great attention to such a process and suggested that Paideia is of importance in overcoming the evil human nature. In his opinion, so long as people persistently learn and perform Rite(li) and Music (yue), they could be cultivated and gain good results through the use of the abilities of human's mind. Briefly, basing on his human's evil nature, Xunzi's systematic and integral thoughts of Paideia, which is also meaningful to our moral construction, illustrate the reasons why people can be cultivated, his goal of theory of Paideia is to teach people to take some actions by which people can gain access to Paideia.