Ancient · c. 310–235 BC
Who influenced Xunzi?
Influences
Confucian who held nature bad and ritual the tool that civilizes it.
Xunzi was influenced by Confucius. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Xunzi?
Xunzi, born Xun Kuang in the state of Zhao, studied at the Jixia Academy in Qi, where every major school of the time was taught, and later returned there as a respected teacher. He is often ranked third among the ancient Confucians, after Confucius and Mencius.
Against Mencius he held that human nature is bad and must be shaped by lifelong education and ritual. He absorbed Taoist and Mohist criticism into a thorough revision of Confucianism that helped it flourish under the Han. His students Han Fei and Li Si had major careers, though their Legalist leanings clashed with his teaching.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Xunzi?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Confucius 551–479 BC
Contemporaries of Xunzi
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Xunzi, with no direct line between them.
- Timon of Phlius c. 320–230 BC
- Cleanthes c. 330–230 BC
- Zeno of Citium c. 334–262 BC
Xunzi by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 1
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 56 — #36 of 54 among ancient philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
- Non-Western: Confucius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Mencius, Xunzi, Nagarjuna, Adi Shankara, Ramanuja, Dōgen, Kitarō Nishida, Muhammad Iqbal
Questions about Xunzi
- Who influenced Xunzi?
- Confucius.
- Who did Xunzi influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Xunzi.
- When did Xunzi live?
- c. 310–235 BC. The map files Xunzi under the ancient world.
- How rare is the Xunzi card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Xunzi in 56 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
More ancient philosophers
- Confucius 551–479 BC
- Aristotle 384–322 BC
- Plato c. 428–348 BC
- Socrates c. 470–399 BC
- Pythagoras c. 570–495 BC
- Laozi c. 6th c. BC
- Cicero 106–43 BC
- Thales of Miletus c. 624–546 BC