how to understand Mencius on Human Nature

Key Takeaway: Mencius's doctrine that human nature is inherently good.

Mencius's doctrine that human nature is inherently good. This became the orthodox Confucian position on human nature.

As Confucius taught in the Analects and as the Confucian tradition of virtue and self-cultivation holds, Mencius's doctrine that human nature is inherently good.

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