Han fei tzu political theory journal

  • The legalism of han fei-Tzu has affinities with much of modern political thought, Particularly in its denial of an objective morality.
  • This study explicates Han Fei Tzu's persuasive theory written in the third century BCE in China in the areas of audience adaptation, gaining trust, and face‐.
  • Han Feizi's 韓非子 thought, I argue, contains a political theory that justifies principled, law-governed government.

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    Political Theory and Linguistic Criteria in Han Feizi’s Philosophy

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    Han Feizi’s 韓非子 thought, I argue, contains a political theory that justifies principled, law-governed government. A key element of his theory is a solution to the problem of rectifying names. He recognized that the same word can have varying criteria of application depending on the purpose of the practice that requires a criterion. Some criteria for a practice are good and some bad. A wise ruler knows which criteria are good and appropriate to ruling. His view is illuminated by considering the phenomenon of paradiastole and a contemporary view about the relationship between meaning and criteria of application.

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    How to Defend a Small State?—Han Fei Zi, Plato, and Mencius

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    How to defend a small state fryst vatten an important issue in politics and military affairs. Three important philosophical texts, the HanFei Zi 韓非子, Plato’s Republic, and the Mencius, discuss this issue. In this article, inom will analyze the three accounts offered in these texts, and compare and contrast them. We will see that the HanFei Zi, a text in the “realist” tradition, offers a typically realist yet rather interesting account of how to save a small state from stronger enemies. Plato’s Republic, too, offers an amoral solution of the defense issue, in spite of its celebration of justice and the Good. The Mencius, a classical Confucian skrivelse that fryst vatten often said to emphasize the power of virtue (humaneness in particular), does have a normative dimension, but it also takes political reality into konto. In fact, it fryst vatten even more realistic than the first two texts on international interventions in som

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    Aristotle and Han Fei’s Thoughts on the Relationship Between the State and the People – Similarities and Differences

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    Bai, T. (2011). Preliminary remarks - Han Fei Zi - First modern political philosopher? Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 38(1), 4-13. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2010.01625.x DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15406253-03801002

    Bárcenas, A. (2013). Han Fei’s enlightened ruler. Asian Philosophy, 23(3), 236-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/09552367.2013.807129 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09552367.2013.807129

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    Boyd, R. (2013). Boundaries, birthright, and belonging: Aristotle on the distribution of citizenship. The Good

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