荀子における「元惡」について
渋 谷 由 紀
*How did
Xunzi
consider Villains (元惡)?
SHIBUYA Yuki
*Abstract
Xunzi (荀子) claimed that moral education is effective to all human beings, but not to villains (元 惡) who luck inborn ability to recognize the right Way. From here he drew a surprising conclusion that there is no hope of villains’ moral improvement and we should not hesitate to execute them. However, in fact, no villain cannot be executed before commitment of his crime, so we seem to be led to another conclusion that in Xunzi’s moral philosophy, even under the rule of sages, human society inevitably leaves rooms for villains and remains ethically imperfect.
キーワード:荀子,元惡,応報刑論,教化,人間社会
Keywords:Xunzi, villains, retributism, moral education, human society