Mencius and Hsun-Tzu

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In Mencius’ teachings, I think it is interesting that he thinks our “original nature is destroyed.” I like the analogy of a beautiful green mountain becoming plain and bear from animals and people. We can use that for ourselves. I was so excited to be a pharmacist in a retail setting but working at a technician and constantly being yelled at and under pressure to meet deadlines the excitement has faded away. Sometimes we let the world bring us down.
Hsun-Tzu had a different view on human kind. He thinks that people start off bad and by gaining knowledge can become good. He argues, “Man wishes to be good because his nature is evil” (61). Personally, I believe that we all have a nature to be “bad”, but how we are raised and taught we fight that “bad” part of ourselves to do the right thing.