Theory of Evil Human Nature
Xunzi is a great Confucian who believed that people can become good and that the best kind of person is a saint. Some say he is as great as Confucius and Mencius. However, he only observed how people behaved empirically and didn't find where goodness comes from. This is a big problem with his idea that people have the idea of natural evilness. Some people think this happened because he was focusing on Mencius too much. But others believe that when Xunzi said "nature is evil", he meant that people can be good, but also have a tendency to be bad.