荀子의 孟子批判, 그 윤리적 의의

Abstract

Xunzi develops the several ethical theories as next when he questions Mencius's assumption that the moral resources are ready-made or inborn. Mencius had taken a step to analysis on the innate moral mind(良心) for understanding human nature at first. with this concept, Mencius had thought that human nature is intrinsically good. Xunzi adopts a deflationary strategy by saying that birth is in itself a process of moving away from any original organic state of mind. He strongly expressed that human nature is originated from some feelings of envy and hatred. Xunzi shows me that people's desires will bring about the social order and the effective allocation of scarce resources. In many passages as the "Li lun pian(禮論篇)" and "Xing e pian(性惡篇)," Xunzi argues that both the original raw material of nature(性, xing) and human artifice(僞, wei) are mutually necessary to bring about morality. From the Xunzi, Xunzi describes the rationale of morality in terms of constitutive processes that give rise to ritual behavior. Xunzi in effect denies that the development of morality is an organic process of nurturing certain original sprouts, even though he may admit that people have feelings of love and righteousness. The difference understanding for human nature of Xunzi and Mencius can be concluded as follows ; Mencius's moral theory for human morality is based on identifying the purity of the ethical motives, based on the virtue of the morality(道德). But Xunzi critizes for Mencius thinking on the inner moral purity, He gives me the re-formation model by based on the rule of human society.