HPC 55. More Gain, Less Pain: the Legalists on Human Nature

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  HPC 55. More Gain, Less Pain: the Legalists on Human Nature

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  Did the fa-thinkers recognize that human beings natural have moral capacities or dispositions? How did they try to manipulate human nature?
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