本文試圖從《荀子》的幾個關鍵概念，藉由詢問：「荀子或《荀子》的問題意識是什麼？」、「荀子或《荀子》的基本關懷是什麼？」「荀學的目的為何？」「荀學是否有其知識論？」「若有，是何種型態的知識論？」等問題，來推導出一種對荀學的詮釋架構，即一種「道德知識論」的建構。並進而反思與肯認此一道德知識論仍可有的當代意義與價值。

This paper is meant, based on some of the key concepts of Xun Zi, to ask a few questions: What is the question consciousness of Xun Zi the author or Xun Zi the work? What is the fundamental concern of Xun Zi and Xun Zi? What's the purpose of Xun Zi's doctrine? Does Xun Zi's doctrine have its own epistemology? If it does, what kind of epistemology is it? Through asking these questions, we work out an interpretative structure of Xun Zi's doctrine, that is, a construction of Xun's moral epistemology. Moreover, we would reflect upon and confirm the contemporary meaning that such an epistemology is possessed with.