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  Han Feizi
Han Feizi explains that the relative power of various rulers may be partly determined by the relative effectiveness with which they are able to reward ministers or subjects who comply with their authority.
Han Feizi also explains that a wise and prudent ruler will rectify laws so that they clearly specify the penalties which are to be imposed on individuals who disobey the ruler’s commands and on individuals who do not comply with the ruler's authority.
Han Feizi’s explanation of the applications of civil authority and of the uses of political power may be criticized for attempting to justify authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
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 Han Feizi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Himself a part of the aristocracy, Han Feizi was born into the ruling family of the state of Han during the end phase of the Warring States Period.
Han Feizi's philosophy experienced a renewed interest under the rule of the Communist Party during the leadership of Mao Zedong, who personally admired some of the principles laid out in it.
Han Feizi's entire recorded work is collected in the Han Feizi, a book containing 55 chapters.
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Han Feizi's philosophy assumes that all people act according to one principle: avoiding punishment, while at the same time trying to achieve gains.
Yet despite its outcast status throughout the history of imperial China, Han Feizi's political theory continued to heavily influence every dynasty afterwards, and the Confucian ideal of a rule without laws was never again realized.
Han Feizi's whole recorded work is collected in one book of 55 chapters, the Han Feizi.
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 Han Feizi -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Himself a part of the aristocracy, Han Feizi was born into the ruling family of (Click link for more info and facts about the state of Han) the state of Han during the end phase of the (Click link for more info and facts about Warring States Period) Warring States Period (戰國;, zhan guo).
Despite its outcast status throughout the history of imperial China, Han Fei's political theory continued to heavily influence every dynasty afterwards, and the (A believer in the teachings of Confucius) Confucian ideal of a rule without laws was never again realized.
Han Feizi's entire recorded work is collected in the (Click link for more info and facts about Han Feizi) Han Feizi, a book containing 55 chapters.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/han_feizi.htm   (386 words)

  
 Shen Buhai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He successfully reformed the bureaucracy in the State of Han; his reforms would later be copied by other states.
According to Han Feizi, Shen championed the concept of Shu (Methods).
Han Feizi criticized Shen for paying too much attention to methodology at the expense of laws, which gave corrupt officials too much room to corrupt the original intent.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shen_Buhai   (201 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Han Feizi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Legalism is an approach to the analysis of legal questions characterised by abstract logical reasoning focusing on the applicable legal text, such as a constitution, legislation, or case law, rather than on the social, economic, or political context.
The Han (simplified Chinese: 韩;, traditional Chinese: 韓;) was a state during the Warring States Period in China.
The Han Feizi is a work written by Han Feizi at the end of the Warring States Period in China, detailing his political philosophy.
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 Han Feizi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Han Feizi's philosophy assumes that all people act according to oneprinciple: avoiding punishment, while at the same time trying to achieve gains.
Yet despite its outcast status throughout the history of imperial China,Han Feizi's political theory continued to heavily influence every dynasty afterwards, and the Confucian ideal of a rule without laws was never again realized.
Han Feizi's philosophy experienced a renewed interest under the rule of the Communist Party during the leadership of MaoZedong, who personally admired some of the principles laid out in it.
www.therfcc.org /han-feizi-16426.html   (402 words)

  
 Han Feizi - Wikipedia
Han Feizi, Meister Han Fei (* um 280 v.
Han Feizi soll ein Schüler des Xunzi gewesen sein und seine Schrift nach dem erfolglosen Versuch politischer Berater zu werden, verfasst haben.
Han Feizi veranschaulicht seine Lehre mittels Anekdoten und kurzen Geschichten.
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 Chinese Cultural Studies: Han Fei: Selections from The Writings of Han Fei (c. 230 BCE)
Legalist writers, to the contrary, emphasized law as governmenst formulative force and advocated a radical restructuring of society in ways that were totally rational and up-to-date.
Legalism reached its apogee in the late third century B.C. in the writings of Han Feizi (Master Han Fei) and the policies of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi.
Han Fei was a prince of the stare of Han who defected to its chief rival, the state of Qin, but eventually he ran afoul of Qin's chief minister, Li Si (d.
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /core9/phalsall/texts/hanfei.html   (872 words)

  
 A Unified Empire
Han Feizi sent written memorials to King Cheng from his prison cell urging him to treat Han as a loyal ally, not an enemy.
Han Feizi recounted several lost opportunities to achieve hegemony, adding that only the king's disloyal counselors had prevented Qin from being victorious.
The writings of Han Feizi left their mark on the State of Qin, which adopted many of its Legalist principles and quickly became a very wealthy and frighteningly autocratic military power.
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 The Qin Dynasty On-line Source Book
Han Feizi was a prince from the royal family of the Han kingdom.
Han Feizi was considered a leading Legalist scholar and was greatly admired by the First Emperor, who adopted his “seven methods”:
Ying Zheng was very pleased to meet his `idol', but Li Si, a former fellow-disciple of Han Feizi who always felt inferior to him, advised the King of Qin to imprison Han Feizi as he might be a spy.
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 Han Feizi
Han Feizi, named Han Fei, was a prince of the royal family of Han during the Warring States Period (475-221BC).
But Han stuttered and could not present his ideas in court, which was a serious impediment.
Han Fei saw the gradual, but constant, decline of the State of Han and tried on several occasions to persuade the king to follow different policies, but the king proved incapable of following his advice.
www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_23104.htm   (555 words)

  
 China History Forum, online chinese history forum > Han FeiZi - would he have served Ying Zheng?
Usually considered as one of the most brilliant minds of the era, Han Fei was a scion of the ruling dynasty of the State of Han, which was probably the weakest and most vulnerable of the Seven Mighty States of the Warring States Era.
Han Fei was a proponent of the Legalism, a school of thought which advocated stringent controls with comprehensive rules, enforced by severe punishments with some reward system as encouragements, ruling by law without consideration to personal station in life.
Han Fei was underappreciated by his own ruling house, but he was not a mercenary like Li Si, and he was at the Qin court primarily as a representative for the interests of his native state.
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 Legalism
His book, the Han Feizi, brought him some prominence during his life and ended up being the main text of the school of Legalism.
Han Feizi died as a result of political intrigue in 233 BC, but Legalism would go on to become the philosophy which finally managed to unify China.
The harshness of the Legalist Qin would be remembered afterwards, and in response the following dynasty, the Han, distanced itself from Legalism and made its main rival, Confucianism the official philosophy.
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 Han dynasty, History_Other, Free Essays @ ChuckIII College Resources
The Han ruled China for forty years, which was divided into two periods: the earlier period Western Han and the later period Easter Han.
Behind all the success of the Han dynasty, there was one of these people who took all the challenges and made the changes was the minister.
In the selection, Han Feizi mentioned ¡§When a ruler placed great trust in his wife, then treacherous minister would make use of her to achieve their private ends.¡¨ and ¡§When the mother of the ruler was the queen, all orders were carried out and all prohibitions were effective.
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 Alibris: Han Feizi: Basic Writings - 0231129696   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concerned with the nature and use of power.
Han Feizi (280?-233 B.C.), a prince of Han, was a representative of the Fa-chia, or Legalist, school of philosophy and produced the final and most readable exposition of its theories.
Ironically, the ruler most influenced by Han Feizi, the king of Qin, eventually sent Han Feizi to prison, where he later committed suicide.
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 Legalism (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Laws should reward those who obey them and punish severely those who dare to break them, even if the result of this would on the face of it appear to be undesirable.
As an example from Han Feizi, if a gate guard (while on duty) goes to fetch a blanket for the king who has just dozed off, this guard is being irresponsible to his official duty and deserves punishment.
The Confucian thinker Xun Zi is sometime considered as being influenced by or having nourished Legalist ideas, mostly because two of his disciples (Li Si and Han Fei Zi) were strict Legalists.
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 AAS Abstracts: China Session 171   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The ideological creation of empire during the Han dynasty involved competing attempts to synthesize the rich traditions of the pre-Han period to construct a cosmological, political, religious, and ethical order that could sustain and perpetuate unification and stability.
Puett's paper highlights the cosmological debates in the early Han concerning the extent to which techniques could and should be used to manipulate natural processes.
The growing predominance of cosmological thinking in the late Warring States and early Han periods generated an important debate concerning the extent to which human action could and should be used to manipulate natural processes and the question of which realm, the human or the natural, should be granted normative priority.
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 Han Feizi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Han Feizi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
His philosophy was very influential on the last King of Qin and the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, becaming one of the guiding principles of the ruler's policies.
The article about Han Feizi contains information related to Han Feizi and References.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Han_Feizi   (407 words)

  
 Directory - Society: Philosophy: Philosophers: H: Han Fei Zi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Han Feizi  · Study questions about this thinker, from an introductory course in Asian studies.
East Asian Studies Documents: Han Fei Zi  · cached · Selections from this compilation of Han Fei Zi's teachings, in the Liano translation of 1939.
Han Fei Tzu  · cached · Excerpts from the 1939 Liao translation of the Han Fei Zi.
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 Han Feizi (Translations from the Asian Classics) (Burton Watson)
Han Fei's "Legalist" writings on government may be the most brutal and amoral in China's long written history.
Han Fei stopped short of openly criticizing Confucius, but would have reversed every Confucian decision based on compassion or familial bonds.
A happy populace was important to Han Fei's government, but only because a satisfied peasantry was harder to stir to revolt.
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 Others
Its primary text was written by Han Feizi and carries the same name.
Han Feizi was schooled in the teachings of Confucianism from a young age and became a fine philosopher.
The Han Feizi is a 55 chapter guide to ruling as is directed at kings.
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 Shen Dao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shen Dao (simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese: 慎到) (ca 350 BC-275 BC) was an itinerant Chinese philosopher from Zhao who also served at the Jixia academy in Qi.
His own original writings have been lost, and he is known largely through short references and the writings of others, notably Han Feizi and Zhuang Zi.
The most noteworthy aspect of Shen Dao's philosophy is the fact that it represented a synthesis of Taoist and Legalist thought.
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 Laozi (Lao-tzu) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Laozi is the name of a legendary Daoist philosopher, the alternate title of the early Chinese text better known in the West as the Daodejing, and the moniker of a deity in the pantheon of organized “religious Daoism” that arose during the later Han dynasty (25-220 CE).
The earliest ascription of authorship of the Daodejing to Laozi is in Han Feizi and the Huainanzi, but several themes from the Laozi logia of the Zhuangzi are traceable into the Daodejing and on at least two occasions in that text Laozi counsels following dao (the Way) to possess de (virtue).
Han Feizi was the foremost counselor of the first emperor of China, Qin Shihuangdi (r.
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 legalsim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Legalist writers, to the contrary, emphasized law as government's formulative force and advocated a radical restructuring society in ways that were totally rational and up to date.
Legalism reached its apogee in the late third century B.C.E. in the writings of Han Feizi (Master Han Fei) and the policies of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi.
Han Fei was a prince of the state of Han who defected to its chief rival, the state of Qin, but eventually he ran afoul of Qin's chief minister, Li Si (d.
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 Han Feizi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
La filosofía de Han Fei asume que toda la gente actúa según un principio: evitar el castigo, mientras que en el mismo tiempo que intenta lograr aumentos.
Con todo a pesar de su estado del paria a través de la historia de China imperial, la teoría política de Han Fei continuada para influenciar pesadamente cada dinastía luego, y el ideal confucian de una regla sin leyes nunca fueron observados otra vez.
La filosofía de Han Feizi experimentó un interés renovado bajo regla del partido comunista durante la dirección de Mao Zedong, que admiró personalmente algunos de los principios presentados en él.
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