Su-Shi and Su-Che's Theory of Human Nature

The traditional Confucianism follows with the interest in demonstrating and achieving sociopolitical system,and does not talk much about human nature.The Confucian revival in the early Northern Song Dynasty focused on the political ideal,and did not take the nature as the most important issue to discuss.The issue of human nature was first opened by Wang An Shi,later developed by Cheng Hao,Cheng Yi,and other scholars.Su Shi and Su Che took an evasive attitude toward human nature,and they believed that Confucius seldom talked about human nature,which was not his legacy. For them,human nature was not visible,and difficult to talk about,and thus it was not worth talking about.But in order to express their view,they had to discuss this issue,and this was their so-called theory of human nature,actually a kind of view against glibly talking about human nature.