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Kind Nature or Evil Nature?——The Bi-polarity Trend Contained in Confucius' Theory of Human Nature

Li Sheng

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The bi-polarity trend of kind nature and evil nature embodied in Confucius' Theory of human nature which the benevolence theory and rites theory as Confucius'core ideology contains.Mencius and Xun zi separately develop it as kind nature and evil nature,which display the inner logical relation,as well as the important role of Confucianism.

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Key concepts: Polarity (international relations), Ideology, Epistemology, Embodied cognition, Relation (database), Philosophy, Chemistry, Law