The Mencius-Xunzi Debate in Early Confucian Ethnics

Introduction Confucianism is considered to be one of the major religions that deeply influence Chinese beliefs and ideologies. Confucius or Confucius is the founder of Confucianism, but he was not the only philosopher who had such a big influence on China. Similarly, Analects is not a single text representing Confucianism. In fact, in various eras of history, there are many excellent representatives of Confucianism such as Mencius and Xunzi.

Xunzi, Confucius, Mencius is one of the three early architects of the Confucian philosophy. In many respects, he provides more complete and complex Confucian defense than Mencius. Scorpion lived at the end of the Sengoku period (453-221 BC) and was generally thought to be the age of most of late Chinese philosophy. Compared to classical Greece, this is the era of many kinds of ideas, so Xunzi is very familiar with many competitive ideas. In response to other thinkers of the time, he detailed the Confucian systematic version including ethics, metaphysics, political theory, language philosophy, and a highly developed educational philosophy. Xunzi is known for his belief that rituals are essential for altering the original nature of human beings. The human race lacks natural moral compass, leaving itself in conflict and confusion, which is why the blind man explains mankind as bad.

Confucianism is a philosophy school developed by "disciples aleale", "warring States era", "Mencius Mencius", and "z child" collected and written by disciples after death. It is a moral, social, political and religious ideology that has had a tremendous influence on China's history, thought and culture until the 20th century. Some Westerners think that it is "empire Chinese" national religion ". Because it has a lasting influence on Asian culture. Their impact spread to Korea, Japan, Vietnam and many other Asian countries.