Does honestly acknowledging the pursuit of profit as an innate nature actually open a more realistic path to governing it?
The nature of people today, from birth, includes a fondness for profit. Follow this nature unchecked, and contention and seizure arise while yielding and deference vanish.
First asked by Xunzi
Xunzi's starting point, acknowledging a nature drawn toward profit, was later pushed to an extreme by the Legalists.
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