Abstract：Xunzi extended the tradition of “worship of virtue and education” of Confucius and Mencius, chose between birth and development, and collected the great achievements of pre-Qin Confucian moral education. He took “human nature is evil, human goodness is learned” as the foundation, “rites”, “law”, and “teacher” as their rich connotation, “accumulation”, and “honesty” as the main path, building a “learning” moral education thought building integrating “external education” and “internal cultivation”. The logic of its thinking is that people who are generally “evil in nature” should take “etiquette” as a guide and improve their level of “behavior” through the guidance of a “king teacher”, to “be good” or “better”, that is, the so-called “change the nature into intentional act”. However, “changing nature” is not “changing human nature”, but grafting “good behavior” on top of “vicious”, achieving four grades of “good virtue”: “Scholar”, “Gentleman”, “Sage”, “Great Sage”. This process is called “learning”, including “accumulation” and “honesty”. “Accumulation” is the accumulation of quantity, including “accumulation of literature”, “accumulation of rites and meanings”, “accumulation of consideration”, “accumulation of continuous sharpening”, “accumulation of Intentional act of rites and meanings”, “accumulation of behavior and customs”. “Sincerity” is the leap of the quality, the sign of the cultivation of virtue, need to have three elements: true; the unity of nature and man; cultivating both inside and outside. Xunzi’s contribution to the moral education of pre-Qin Confucianism lies in: strengthening the value of moral education, clarifying the foundation of moral education, refining the goal of moral education, optimizing the path of moral education, expanding the content and method of moral education; the limitation is that its “sanctification logic” is difficult to “self-consistent”.
杨建兵. “积靡”与“成圣”：荀子德育思想诠[J]. 《深圳大学学报》（人文社科版）, 2025, 42(1): 133-143.
YANG Jian-bing. Accumulation of “Continuous Sharpening” and “Sanctification”: Interpretation of Xunzi’s Moral Education Thought. , 2025, 42(1): 133-143.
2025, Vol. 42 
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