论《淮南子》的“人性回归”

Regression of human nature in Huainanzi

《淮南子》集成于汉初,继承了诸子百家的思想,其中以道家为主。其书,以治理天下为目的,然人是其必究之核心。关于人性,本然之人性合道,现实之人性迷离,人性是可塑造的,最终提出自得的观点。《淮南子》认为人性无论是从起点,还是终点,都是完美的。

Huainanzi was finished at the beginning of Han Dynasty. It inherited the thought from different schools of scholars in pre-Qin times, mainly from those of Taoism. This book aimed to help govern the world, thus took the people as the core of study. It believed human nature was blurred, but plastic, and gave its own view. Huainanzi regarded human nature as perfect, either at the beginning or in the end.