Xunzi
c. 313 BCE – 230 BCElived
State of Zhao
- Confucianism
The Confucian who thought Mencius was wrong: human nature is bad, and goodness is a deliberate human construction built by ritual and study. Taught two of Legalism’s founders.
Known for
- human nature is bad
- ritual as artifice
- heaven is not a moral agent
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.