death_place death_date birth_place opponents nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
state of chu c. 238 bc -lrb- aged 74 -- 75 -rrb- state of zhao mencius , zisi chinese c. 313 bc xun kuang
 xun kuang philosopher
xun kuang

xun kuang -lrb- ; , c. 310c .
235 bc , alt .
c. 314c .
217 b.c. -rrb- , known as `` master xun '' -lrb- xunzi -rrb- , was a chinese confucian philosopher who lived during the warring states period and contributed to one of the hundred schools of thought .
the `` xunzi '' , an influential collection of essays , is traditionally attributed to him .
educated in the state of qi , xunzi was associated with the confucian school , but his philosophy has a darker , pragmatic , flavour compared to confucian optimism , perhaps because he witnessed the chaos surrounding the fall of the zhou dynasty .
xunzi believed man 's inborn tendencies need to be curbed through education and ritual , counter to mencius 's view that man is innately good .
he believed that ethical norms had been invented to rectify mankind .
xunzi was the teacher of li si and han fei zi , proponents of legalism , who believed that man 's nature is innately bad and needs to be controlled by law and punishments .
