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Selected received chapters address human nature, learning and ritual. Judgments differ about their authorship and about what deliberate effort means.
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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.