Understandings of Human Failures to Flourish in Catholicism and Confucianism

Corrupt human nature, forever shadowed by original sin. In contrast, a fundamentally good human nature, forever defined by its incipient or actual uprightness. Never or rarely doing the good you know to be good in contrast to always being able to know and therefore do the good. Slogans, even theoretical clichés these, yes, but they point to what seems to be a fundamental difference between Confucians and Roman Catholics: their understandings of what leads people to fail to attain full human flourishing—and therefore many other matters, perhaps most notably what can help people overcome their failures. Many of course