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The Philosophical Foundations of Han Fei's Political Theory

Hsiao-po Wang & Leo S. Chang

Philosophy East and West 39 (1):83-93 (1989)

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Implications of Han Fei’s Philosophy for China’s Legal and Institutional Reforms.Mingjun Lu - 2016 - Journal of Chinese Political Science:1-18.details In his treatise Han Fei Zi, the Chinese ancient thinker Han Fei proposes a governance structure that emphasizes the institutionalization of legal norms, judicious sovereign intervention, and ministerial obligations. These three core concepts of Han’s legal thinking are informed by both the Taoist law of Nature and the Confucian philosophy as is expounded by Xun Zi. Recognition of the Taoist and Confucian influences brings to light the ethical and normative dimensions of Han’s legal thought, dimensions that, I propose, provide new (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
The Difficulty with “The Difficulties of Persuasion”(“Shuinan” 說難).Michael Hunter - 2012 - In Paul Goldin (ed.), Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei. New York: Springer. pp. 169--195.details Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Submerged by Absolute Power: The Ruler's Predicament in the Han Feizi.Yuri Pines - 2012 - In Paul Goldin (ed.), Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei. New York: Springer. pp. 67--86.details Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Han feizi's legalism versus kautilya's arthashastra.Roger Boesche - 2005 - Asian Philosophy 15 (2):157 – 172.details Writing only decades apart, Han Feizi (ca. 250 BCE) and Kautilya (ca. 300 BCE) were two great political thinkers who argued for strong leaders, king or emperor, to unify warring states and bring peace, who tried to show how a ruler controls his ministers as well as the populace, defended the need for spies and violence, and developed the key ideas needed to support the bureaucracies of the emerging and unified states of China and India respectively. Whereas both thinkers disliked (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Han Feizi and the Old Master: A Comparative Analysis and Translation of Han Feizi Chapter 20,“Jie Lao,” and Chapter 21,“Yu Lao”. [REVIEW]Sarah A. Queen - 2012 - In Paul Goldin (ed.), Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei. New York: Springer. pp. 197--256.details Download Export citation Bookmark
Virtue Politics and Political Leadership: A Confucian Rejoinder to Hanfeizi.Sungmoon Kim - 2012 - Asian Philosophy 22 (2):177-197.details In the Confucian tradition, the ideal government is called "benevolent government" (ren zheng), central to which is the ruler's parental love toward his people who he deems as his children. Hanfeizi criticized this seemingly innocent political idea by pointing out that (1) not only is the state not a family but even within the family parental love is short of making the children orderly and (2) ren as love inevitably results in the ruin of the state because it confuses what (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Rhetorical authority in athenian democracy and the chinese legalism of Han Fei.Arabella Lyon - 2008 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 41 (1):51-71.details Download Export citation Bookmark

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