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What comes without learning, and what does moral education develop? The disagreement is more than nature against nurture.
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Guided course · Module 4 · Lesson 15
How do people become good?
Mengzi finds moral beginnings in human nature, while Xunzi calls for its deliberate transformation. On either account education has work to do, and neither makes sustained effort unnecessary.