 Xunzi (310–235 BCE) approaches emotions from the perspective of the functions and processes of the mind. The mind, according to him, is a functional complexity consisting of diverse processes of feelings and its nature is not to draw upon the innate moral orientation but to manifest affective sensitivity and reactivity in expressible forms. If the mind has the spontaneous reactivity to external stimuli, emotions and feelings show how the mind interacts with or reacts to the world (Xunzi, 11.10). Therefore, his approach to emotions and feelings, in comparison to Mencius’s foundational and moral approach, is naturalistic and psychological. Unlike Mencius, he does not investigate and analyze the innate foundations of Confucian virtues. Instead, he discusses how emotions and feelings are aroused in the mind to serve particular perceptual, conative, and moral functions.