关键词: 荀子, 人性, 道德修养

Abstract: Xunzi is one of the most famous philosophers in ancient China. On the one hand, he declared that human nature is fundamentally bad in the perspective of human being' natural characteristic, on the other, he put forward the theory of changing humanity by man-made and moral-cultivation in the perspective of human being' social characteristic. Xunzi affirmed the possibility that a bad man can be cultivated into a good one under the condition of external moral norms. Xunzi's theory of moral-cultivation that emphasized that to be a sage or man of honor should be one's life realm possesses important values in modern society.

Key words: Xunzi; human nature; moral cultivation