Part one of term paper
This essay is on the as perceived by Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, Kao Tzu and Hsun Tzu. The following will be my learning and understanding of each philosopher's idea on the inborn good and evil of man. Hsun Tzu, an exponent of the principles of Confucius, represents the realist wing and emphasized on social control and insisted upon the wea ...

Part two of term paper
... regard for loyalty and fidelity. By birth men have the lusts of the ear and eye and a passion for music and beauty. When they follow these lusts, they commit excesses without regard for ritual and righteousness, culture and reason. Therefore when men give "rein to their congenital nature" and follow their feelings, they quarrel and grab, end up by opposing culture and confounding reason; and they culminate in violence. "Only under the restraint of law and the influence of ritual and right ...