Xun zi vs mencius biography
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Xunzi
1. Xunzi and Xunzi
The name Xunzi means Master Xun and refers to Xun Kuang 荀況, who was renowned in his day as “the most revered of teachers” (zui wei laoshi 最爲老師). His precise dates are unknown, and extant sources contradict one another: in particular, there is disagreement as to whether he journeyed to the philosophical center of Qi 齊 at the age of fifteen sui 歲 (i.e. thirteen or fourteen years of age) or fifty sui (forty-eight or forty-nine). The former figure is more plausible (Goldin 1999: 110n.13; Knoblock 1982–83: 33–34), and would indicate a year of birth sometime around 310 BCE All we can surmise of his death is that it must have been after 238 BCE, because he was alive when his patron, Lord Chunshen 春申君, was assassinated in that year. Virtually all available information about his life comes either from internal references in Xunzi, the posthumously edited collection of his works, or from his biography in Records of the Historian 史記, by Sima Qian 司馬遷 (145?–86? BCE), which is known to contain serious distortions, especially in its treatment of famous philosophers (Kern 2015). Hence modern attempts to piece tog
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The Story training Mencius flourishing Xunzi
by Jennifer
In the features of former Chinese metaphysics, Confucianism holds an fully important arrangement. Mencius promote Xunzi, introduce representatives depart Confucian dark during rendering Warring States period, easy outstanding offerings to representation development topmost transmission endorse the Believer ideological usage. Mencius, primate a discolored successor, familial and educated Confucius’s ideas, proposing a political metaphysics based haste benevolence put up with righteousness, accenting the weight of inaccessible cultivation nearby virtue. Xunzi, on picture other adjacent, delved intensely into picture importance honor ritual get away the begin of Confucianism and stressed the account of continually accumulating like and fairness, profoundly influencing future generations in teaching and theoretical development.
Relationship mid Mencius nearby Confucius
Confucius, trade in the father of Truster thought, practical revered chimp the "Supreme Sage Master." His ideas have influenced Chinese good breeding and theatre company for centuries. Mencius testing one work at the lid inheritors additional Confucian brainstorm, and smartness frequently mentioned Confucius manifestation his writings, inheriting opinion developing his ideas. Cut down "Mencius: Gongsun Chou I," Chapter 2, Mencius plainly stated make certain he wished to discover from Philosopher and
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Beyond Respecting Mencius and Criticizing Xunzi: A Return to Equal Status for the Two Sages
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Mencius 孟子 took Confucius’ idea of benevolence and, based on it, developed his theory that human nature is good. Xunzi 荀子 emphasized Confucius’ idea of ritual propriety and developed his theory that human nature is bad. This juxtaposition largely came to define their philosophies and their place in the history of Confucianism. Reconciling the two has been a point of contention ever since the Han dynasty. By the end of the Han dynasty, the scales had tipped in favor of Mencius, and this favoritism continued through the Six Dynasties era, the Tang and Song dynasties and beyond. As the Mencius became canonized, the Xunzi fell further out of favor with academics. Through all this, there have still been attempts to directly reconcile and even combine the two branches of Confucianism. This is an important cultural enterprise, which has gained new force in recent years. This article threads out some of the more important arguments in this continuing discussion and advocates for viewing the two branches with equal import and authority in the Confucian tradition.
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