荀况(前313——前238),又名孙卿,赵国人,是战国末年著名的唯物主义思想家,曾游学于齐、秦、赵、楚等诸侯国,在当时学术界影响很大。他批判地吸收了先秦各学派的思想理论,包括商业思想理论。他既吸取了儒家通商惠工思想中的合理因素,也吸取了法家重农抑商思想中的正确 Xun Kuang (former 313 - before 238), also known as Sun Qing, Zhao people, is the famous materialistic thinkers in the late Warring States period, had traveled in the Qi, Qin, Zhao, Chu and other vassal states, at that time a great influence on academia. He critically absorbed the ideology and theory of the schools of pre-Qin, including the theory of business thought. He not only learned the reasonable factors in the thought of Confucianism and benefiting the workers, but also learned the correctness