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Come Back Gods and Ghosts. Who Will Fight Against God?

In: The End of Rationality and Selfishness

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  • Rui-Wu Wang

    (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

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Whether human nature is inherently selfish or selfless has always been an eternal topic since ancient times. In the era of a hundred schools of thought in China, there has been a very in-depth discussion. Confucianism holds that human nature is inherently good. “At the beginning of human beings, human nature is inherently good, and human nature is similar to each other, but habits are far from each other”, which is the selfless promotion of human nature. On the other hand, Xunzi advocated that human nature is inherently evil, and “the likes and dislikes of human nature, joy and anger of human beings, are called emotions” and “human beings are born to fix villains”, which is the earliest assertion of human selfishness.

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  • Rui-Wu Wang, 2023. "Come Back Gods and Ghosts. Who Will Fight Against God?," Springer Books, in: The End of Rationality and Selfishness, chapter 0, pages 209-216, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-19-9752-5_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-9752-5_14
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