 Human nature [xing 性 nature] is the accomplishment of Heaven [tian 天]. The dispositions [qing 情 natural disposition or essential property] are the substance of the nature [xing 性 nature]. The desires [yu 欲] are the responses of the dispositions [qing 情] to things. Viewing the objects of desire as permissible to obtain and seeking them are what the dispositions [qing 情] cannot avoid. (Xunzi, 22.15; Hutton 2014: 244)