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Mencius and Xunzi on human nature : The concept of moral autonomy in the early confucian tradition

Maurizio Scarpari

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The doctrines on the goodness or evilness of human nature maintained in ancient China respectively by Me,ncius (390-305 BC) and Xunzi (310-219 BC) has been interpreted mostly as a contradiction within the Confucian school. In this article it is argued that they represent two distinct, yet possible and congruous, modes of interpreting and re-elaborating Confucius' teachings, two opposing yet largely complementary currents which have developed within the confucian school

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Key concepts: Contradiction, Autonomy, Philosophy, China, Epistemology, Environmental ethics, Sociology, Law