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The core of Xun-Zi’s political philosophy is ‘rule by ritual(禮治)’. For this purpose he suggested the way of ‘correction of names(正名)’. Both two ideas are deeply influenced by his conception of language and his view of human nature. Because human nature is evil, so it need to be transformed. And this kind of transformation is called ‘false(僞)’ by Xun-Zi. The most important form of ‘false’ is ‘ritual’ as well as ‘name(名, norm, language)’. Through the social norm function of language, the chaos state of the world can be ruled and the country can reach a good governance. Xun-Zi pointed out that the nature of language is based on social contract. Language is arbitrary because it does not have natural standards. Language got the regulation power when social members made promises. And when such promises or social norms change, the language/ name/norm also need to be change accordingly. Thus Xun-Zi argued the possibility of social transformation. Although he inherited the philosophy of Confucian tradition, Xun-Zi did not stay in the ethical theory and moral practice of Confucius and Mencius. In methodology, he introduced the elements of logics and linguistics and made a further development to Confucian though tradition.

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ABSTRACT
 1. 들어가는 말
 2. 制名- 명칭/언어의 제정
 3. 언어의 본질 - 사회적 약속(約定俗成)
 4. 언어의 기능 – 현실세계에 대한 변별
 5. 언어의 규범력
 6. 결론
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• 김중섭 [ Kim, Joong-Sub | 제주대학교 ]

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