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Xunzi was a Chinese philosopher who lived towards the end of the Warring States period (453-221 BCE). He is considered the third great thinker of the Confucian tradition, after Mencius and Confucius himself. He famously rejected the prevailing notion that man was good by nature and instead argued that man's behavior should be molded by training, learning and discipline (which he calls rites) in order to overcome animalistic urges and make him righteous and to produce well ordered and prosperous societies led by enlightened and benevolent rulers.
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