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3 Great teachers of Confucianism | August 10, 2004

In Confucianism there are 3 Great teachers that shaped Confucianism and its development. The Successors of Confucius, Mencius und Hsun Tzu differ in their perception of Human Nature. Mencius held that man’s nature is originally good, and that man’s task is to develop the inherent goodness through a balance of effort and spontaneity, eventually realizing a commonality of man’s nature with the nature of heaven. Hsun Tzu on the other hand held that man’s nature is not good but evil, and man and society needed controls in the form of laws and rites.

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