人性究竟是善?是恶?这是贯穿整个中国哲学史的重要内容之一。孟子与荀子同为儒家大师,但关于人性善与恶的观点却截然相反。笔者试图通过孟荀二人对人性概念的界定、对人性善恶的判断,以及修身之法的比较,来认识孟子性善论与荀子性恶论之异同,从而对人性问题做进一步探析。一、孟荀人性论的比较《孟子·滕文公上》记载:“孟子道性善,言必称尧舜。”他说:“人性之善也,犹水之就下也。人无有不善,水无有 Human nature is good and evil? This is one of the important elements throughout the history of Chinese philosophy. Mencius and Xunzi are both Confucian masters, but the views on humanity’s good and evil are completely opposite. The author tries to find out the similarities and differences between Mencius’s theory of goodness and Xerox’s theory of sexuality and evil through the definition of humanity concept, the judgment of humanity’s good and evil, and the comparison of self-cultivation method, so as to further probe into the humanity problem. First, Mencius’s theory of human nature, ”Mencius Teng Wen Gong Shang“ records: ”Mencius Taoist good, the words will be called Yao and Shun. “ He said: ”The goodness of human nature, There is no water