Abstract: All forms of anthropocentrism have two common points. On the one hand, they consciously or unconsciously think that the relationship between nature and man is opposite, so they often neglect the man s duty of protecting nature. On the other hand, they think it is not necessary to expand man s ethics to nature. However, Xunzi often conscientiously thought that nature and man are in perfect harmony, so he demanded that people should protect nature when they took advantage of it. What is more, he advocated tha...

Key words: Xunzi, theviewpointofnatureandman, anthropocentrism