Aristotle and Xunzi on Shame, Moral Education, and the Good Life by Jingyi Jenny Zhao;

Author:Jingyi Jenny Zhao;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
Published: 2024-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Shame and the Path to Moral Goodness

Moral Education and the Ideal

The metaphor of the warped wood, strikingly employed by both Aristotle and Xunzi, provides a pertinent case for illustrating the relationship between human nature and the cultivation of morals in the two philosophers’ accounts. Let us consider the following passages:

We should consider the things that we ourselves, too, are more readily drawn towards, for different people have different natural inclinations; and this is something we shall be able to recognise from the pleasure and the pain that things bring about in us. We should drag ourselves away in the opposite direction; for by pulling far away from error we shall arrive at the intermediate point, in the way people do when they are straightening out warped pieces of wood.1

— Aristotle

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