Moral cultivation, meritocracy and the origin of petty people: a hypothesis
In this essay, I will address a problem in Xunzi’s application of moral cultivation on petty people. Specifically, one of the main problems in accounting for petty people is that everyone is born as a petty person and petty people are defined to be people who freely express their dispositions and do...
Main Author: | Lee, Sheng Yue |
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Other Authors: | Winnie Sung |
Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
Language: | English |
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Nanyang Technological University
2023
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165418 |
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