(intro music) Hi everybody, I'm Matt Walker. I teach philosophy and humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. Today, I'm going to take a look at Mengzi's views on human nature. In particular, I'm going to take a look at Mengzi's defense of the claim that human nature is good. Mengzi, also known as Mencius, was an early Confucian philosopher. He lived in the 300s BCE.
CC | tv-14. When he was just 17 years old, Shaka Senghor was convicted of second-degree murder, and he went on to spend 19 years in prison. Shaka arrived in prison seething with anger and resentment, refusing to take responsibility for his actions. It wasn't long before he was sent to solitary confinement for lashing out.
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