The theory of human nature is a major issue in Chinese and Western philosophy, always famous for the difficulties in re-searching it. Someone even called it the"Goldbach's Conjecture"in philosophical studies. However, it is extremely important, as only after learning about what human nature is, can people un-derstand how to live. As a master of Confucianism, Mr. Qian Mu paid close attention to the theory of human nature and proposed many correct and penetrating views on it. This paper attempts to make a brief comment on several pieces of particularly important views on the theory of human nature of Qian Mu. Generally speaking, Mr. Qian Mu approved of the dynamic development of human nature instead of changelessness, which is consistent with Wang Chuanshan's view that "human nature forms over time". Remarkably, he held that human nature is not free and easy in its dynamic development, but has a certain orientation, namely,"goodness of human nature". In addition, Mr. Qian proposed that human nature is emotional from the starting end and the impor-tance of emotions is more than desire and sense. All these views were proposed based on his own rich life experience, differing from philosophical logical argumentation, which makes the views Abstract The theory of human nature is a major issue in Chinese and Western philosophy, always famous for the difficulties in re-searching it. Someone even called it the"Goldbach's Conjecture"in philosophical studies. However, it is extremely important, as only after learning about what human nature is, can people un-derstand how to live. As a master of Confucianism, Mr. Qian Mu paid close attention to the theory of human nature and proposed many correct and penetrating views on it. This paper attempts to make a brief comment on several pieces of particularly important views on the theory of human nature of Qian Mu. Generally speaking, Mr. Qian Mu approved of the dynamic development of human nature instead of changelessness, which is consistent with Wang Chuanshan's view that "human nature forms over time". Remarkably, he held that human nature is not free and easy in its dynamic development, but has a certain orientation, namely,"goodness of human nature". In addition, Mr. Qian proposed that human nature is emotional from the starting end and the impor-tance of emotions is more than desire and sense. All these views were proposed based on his own rich life experience, differing from philosophical logical argumentation, which makes the views too plain and lack depths, so they are worthy of our further explo-rations.%人性论问题是中西哲学中的大问题，素以难以研究著称。有人甚至将其称为哲学研究中的“哥德巴赫猜想”。然又极其重要，人只有知晓了人性是什么，才能明白该怎么活。钱穆先生作为一代儒学大师，对人性论问题也极为关注，对人性也提出了很多真知灼见。本文拟就钱穆人性论观点中尤其重要的几则，做一个简要的述评。大体上讲，钱穆先生是赞成人性是动态发展的，不是天赋之而一成不变的，这与王船山的“性日生日成”观点相一致。值得注意的是，他认为人性在动态发展过程中并非自由散漫的，而且有一定的性向，即“人性向善”。另外，钱先生提出人性从发用端来看是重情的，情感的重要性要大于欲望和理智。这些观点都是他百般玩味其丰富的人生经验后“自家体贴”出来的，不同于哲学上的逻辑论证。这也使得他的这些观点质朴有余而深度不足，值得吾侪继续探索。
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