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Why does China's traditional morality pay special attention to human nature?

The most popular saying is that with the continuous evolution of human beings, a developed brain can think, so it likes to get to the bottom of what it perceives and make a conclusive explanation. Some sages aimed their research at themselves and their peers, so they put forward "What am I? What is a person? " Philosophers have formed their own opinions on the basis of in-depth research, so they write books and explain people and society with their own views, thus forming many classic views on human nature.

But the problem of China's philosophical tradition has not been solved here. Although the human brain is rich in thinking, why do people in China prefer to talk about human nature? This should be analyzed from the cultural differences between China and the West. Westerners like to observe nature other than human beings. They know people late and pay more attention to rational cognition. The object of cognition is from nature to man, and when they study man, they also start from the research thinking of nature. Therefore, their understanding of people is often similar to the study of nature, pursuing a beautiful idea, or pursuing an attitude towards life, rather than directly thinking about human existence. This will have to wait until they have a real anthropological tendency. Different from China, people in China tend to think directly about the outside, with a natural tendency of solipsism and dogmatism. In the traditional imperial era, everyone is used to putting themselves first and taking things different from themselves as the starting point of interests. So the people around you must be the closest to their own interests. When the surrounding environment changes suddenly or war breaks out, China's thinking will certainly turn to people's understanding immediately. Today, many people in China still use this way of thinking. Whenever one's own will can't be reflected, one begins to doubt the humanity of the people around him, and even transforms one's own nature. This is the result of China people's thinking. While it constantly doubts and denies, it also cancels a self with special value, which makes their understanding constantly present false rationality, thus failing to reach the conclusion closest to justice and truth, leading to conformity or disagreement.