Named for its purported author, the Xunzi (literally, "Master Xun") has long been neglected compared to works such as the Analects of Confucius and the Mencius. Yet interest in the Xunzi has grown in
This is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the ancient Chinese textXunzi, one of the most extensive, sophisticated, and elegant works in the tradition of Confucian thought. Through
Xunzi asserted that the original nature of man is evil, differing on this point from Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school. In the most complete, well-ordered philosophical system of
