Pre-Qin Human Nature Revisited

Ancient Chinese scholars discussed the problem of human nature more than a thousand years has been confined between goodness and evil human nature, and other entangled in the factional controversy.From Confucius, Mencius, home to the Neo-Confucian,understanding of human nature is almost factions to form a set of academic potential,this stereotype has continued to the present.Speaking of human nature, when the division of scholars never a bad school rules,including the history of Chinese thought, history of Chinese philosophy have adopted the said materials.The author believes that for thousands of years, the academic question of the interpretation of human nature is not accurate,Mencius, who discussed human nature does not mean they think its belong to "human nature is good school" or "Evil faction",they emphasize only one aspect of human accomplishmentin, or that focused.Re-examine the problem of the ancient theory of human nature,primitive theory of human nature revealed the problem.Research has become the traditional philosophy that must be faced and problems to be solved.Xiao-Chun Li, Chi-Cheng Zhou into human nature and other people's questions,and other scholars of the response,is again marked by academic theory of human nature to rethink,their arguments, but also the inevitable human nature. This total of three parts, the first major of the academia, "Mencius" and "the evil nature of humans Xunzi" to discrimination.We believe that neither the pure goodness of Mencius who Xunzi nor purely evil nature of humans who Mencius.Pre understanding of human nature from Confucius for the beginning of humanity, human nature has opened the abstract and concrete binary divide to the time of Mencius and Xun Zi, the traces of this binary divide to become increasingly evident.The second part is the human nature of Mencius and Xun Zi's thought, for example, each Taos in the analysis of their duality demonstrated by the results of the process and debate, and the ancient Chinese theory of human nature derived from the beginning of Mencius and Xunzi on human nature had begun two per division conclusions.The third part mainly through the school representatives Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao,Cheng Yi, Zhu Xi and Wang Shou-ren, who duality of human nature and its further interpretation by the development of science to come to Neo dualism has its own contradictions.As such contradictions the way through what can be solved, the contemporary Confucian studies are still an important issue to be resolved.