Traditional Chinese theories of human nature started often in the view of ethics and accomplished with moral criticism.Western ones mostly started from pure logic and leaded to political and state theory.On the contrary,Marx's theory of those used historical dialectics and leaded abstract attributes of man into continually expanding social history.Thus,human nature becomes a specific process,through which people finds general law and promotes it as the highest value principle.The law is whether reflects the comprehensive and free development of human,and it is regarded as the evaluation standard about the development of community.
LUO Xin-yan(School of Public Administration,Hohai University,Nanjing 210098,China)