In Chinese culture, there are roughly four views on human nature: Mencius's theory of sexual goodness, Xunzi's theory of sexual evil, the theory of sexual goodness and no evil of The Son, and yang Xiong's theory of both good and evil.
1. In general, the religious world tends to favor the good end, while the secular world tends to favor the evil side.
2. The theory of the intrinsic goodness of human nature, represented by the Confucian Mencius. The Three Character Sutra begins with "At the beginning of man, nature is good, sex is similar, and habits are far away."
3. The theory of the inherent evil of human nature, represented by the Confucian Xunzi. There is the assertion that "human nature is evil, and so is its good and falsehood". Later, Han Feizi developed into the theory of human selfishness, using severe punishment to regulate people's behavior, and he believed that people would only restrain their behavior out of fear of punishment.
4. There is no good or evil theory of human nature, and the representative figure is the confessor. He believes that human nature is neither good nor good, "born is sex", "food color, sex also".
5. Human nature is both good and evil, and the representative figure is Yang Xiong of the Western Han Dynasty. He believes that "human nature is also a mixture of good and evil." To cultivate his good is to be a good man, and to cultivate his evil is to be an evil person."
6. Plato said that human nature is inherently good. Therefore, seeking truth and seeking goodness is the ultimate goal and purpose of man.
7. The Bible says that human nature is inherently evil. So life is about constant repentance and redemption.
8. Rousseau, who was anti-knowledge and anti-civilization, believed that the natural nature of human beings is good, and evil deeds are the result of socialization and knowledge.
9 Schopenhauer and Augustine, known for their pessimism, believed that human nature is full of sin and too many desires and evil thoughts.
10 Aristotle stood in the middle, arguing that human nature is good when properly developed, but that if not properly cultivated, it can cause people to behave worse than all other animals.
11 All human beings are either good or evil or unwholesome or not evil, but only an assumption, not a fact.
(12) The reason why people argue about what human nature is is to justify the purpose of life. Find legitimacy in order to teach people what to do. Because human nature is inherently good, it is right to educate people to pursue the highest good. Because human nature is inherently evil, it is right to admonish people to repent and redeem.
13 You have to remember that no matter what the world becomes, you have to be kind.
14. Sin is in accord with human nature, but if it does not change for a long time, it is the devil.
15, although the way of expression and habits are different, but the nature of human beings is the same.
16, the premise of a person's luck is actually his ability to change himself.
17, the meaning of life is not to take a good hand, but to play a bad hand.
18, the poor in the downtown no one asked, the rich in the mountains have distant relatives.
19. It is difficult to draw a tiger and paint a skin, and it is difficult to draw a bone, and it is difficult to know the face of the person and not the heart.
20 There are two things in the world that cannot be looked at directly, one is the sun, and the other is the human heart.
21 Man's eyes are black and his heart is red, but as soon as his eyes are red, his heart is black.
22, after the age of fifty, you should not argue with people, people are very stubborn about their own ideas, do not try to convince others.
23 Education cannot change human nature, but only improve human nature. — Aristotle
24 Love, hope, fear and faith constitute human nature, and they are the signs and characteristics of human nature. - Browning
25 The study of the truth, the knowledge of the truth, and the belief in the truth are the highest virtues of human nature. - Bacon
26 I have only built a small temple, and in this small temple, I enshrine human nature. ——Shen Congwen
27 Man is between gods and beasts, sometimes inclined to one kind and sometimes to the other; some are becoming more and more sacred, some have become beasts, and most remain moderate. - Plotinus
28 The nature of human beings in the world is the same, but education and habits make their manifestations different, so we must know them in various cloaks. —Chesterfield
29, when you grow up, you find that sometimes you tell the truth, and you have to apologize to people because you have punctured the truth. So if you want to live smoothly, please always bring your brain.
30, good people, always feel that rejecting others is like doing something wrong. Some people, you help her seven points, she thinks you owe her three points.
31 Human nature is ugly and cannot stand the test. You think that the people you have helped will at least show compassion when you are in distress, but often these are the people who are most likely to fall into the well.
32, the most pitiful thing about human nature is that we always dream of a wonderful rose garden in the sky, rather than admiring the roses that open in our windows today.
33, everyone has their eyes open, but it does not mean that everyone is looking at the world, many people hardly use their own eyes to see, they only listen to others, the world they see is always what others say.
34, we only need to do three things in our lives: know how to choose, understand how to persist, and know how to cherish.