Lecture 06 Human Nature and Ethics: Cheng Hao (程顥 1032-1085) and Cheng Yi (程頤 1033-1107)

You are not what you are: the dualism of human nature (xing 性)
- The perfect original point
- the contradiction to reality
- Japanese scholar's coinage
The metaphor of the spring
- The history of the development of human nature
- The belief
- "Human nature is qiI and qi is human nature."
"Understanding humanity" (shiren 識仁) and "Stabilizing human nature" (dingxing 定性)
- The vital phenomenon of the multitude things (wanwu shengyi 萬物生意)
- To feel within the same body with the other
- How not to be disturbed by external objects
  - The answer to moving away from the original status
"Human nature is Principle" （xing ji li 性即理)
- The external and internal aspects of achieving ethical personality
- "Cultivating [oneself] by innate attentiveness and advancing one's learning by acualizing the understanding"
- "Straighten the internal and use righteousness to measure the external [affairs]"
Investigating things to actualizing the understanding (gewu zhizhi 格物致知)
- Xunzi: the capacity to know and the principles within things to be known
- The mind
- The ambiguity between objects and affairs: the concept of wu (物 things）
- The revolutionary implication and the conservative return

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