PHILOSOPHY - Ancient: Mengzi (Mencius) on Human Nature [HD]

What is human nature? Is human nature good or bad? Can human nature be good even if the world contains some notably bad people? Matthew Walker (Yale-NUS College) looks at the views of the early Confucian thinker Mengzi (Mencius).

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