Dao companion to China's fa tradition : the philosophy of governance by impartial standards / Yuri Pines, editor.]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

EBSCOhost

Series:

Dao companions to Chinese philosophy ; 19.

Dao companions to Chinese philosophy ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legalism (Chinese philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, 2024.

Contents:

Introduction

The fa Tradition in Chinese Philosophy

Part I: Major texts and thinkers

1. The Book of Lord Shang: The Ideology of the Total State

2. Shen Buhais Theory of fa

3. Morality in the Shenzi Fragments

4. Han Feizi: The World Driven by Self-Interest

5. The Concept of fa in Guanzi and its Evolution

6. The Ideology of Chao Cuo

Part II: Major Ideas of the fa Traditions

7. Rule by Impersonal Standards in the Early Empire: Ideas and Realities

8. Fa and the Early Legal System

9. Two Perspectives on the Fa Tradition: Politics versus the Rule of Impartial Standards

10. Human Motivation in the fa Tradition

11. The ruler in fa-based Government

12. The Historiography of Political Realism

13. The Rulers New Tools: Fa and the Political Paradigm of Measure in Early China

14. Philosophy of Language in the fa Tradition

15. The fa Tradition and Morality

Part III: Fa Traditions in history

16. The Historical Reputation of the fa Tradition in Imperial China

17. The fa Tradition and Its Modern Fate: The Case of the Book of Lord Shang

Part IV: Comparative Perspectives

18. The fa Tradition versus Confucianism: Intellectuals, the State, and Meritocracy

19. Fajia and the Mohists

20. Laozi, Huang-Lao and the fa Tradition: Thinking through the Term xingming .-21. Machiavelli and the fa Tradition

22. The Book of Lord Shang and Totalitarianisms Intellectual Precursors Compared

Epilogue

23. The Han Feizi and its Contemporary Relevance.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9783031536304

3031536304

Publisher Number:

90101083993

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