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Han Feizi

HAHN fay-DZUH

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The collected writings of Han Fei, fifty-five chapters synthesizing earlier Legalist thinkers, Shang Yang on law, Shen Buhai on statecraft technique, and Shen Dao on positional power, into a single systematic argument that a ruler secures order through impersonal, publicly codified law and the strategic concealment of personal preference, not through personal virtue. It became the fullest philosophical statement of Legalism and is traditionally credited with shaping the administrative doctrine Qin used to unify China in 221 BCE.

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Classical Chinese 1
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Han Fei, Philosophers
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Political Philosophy, Branches of Philosophy
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationSEP, "Han Feizi"
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Han Feizi is considered as philosophically and literally more engaging than the Book of Lord Shang, and it has been more widely studied in China, Japan, and in the West.
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1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationAuthored By: Han FeiView the Source
1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationIn Branch: Political PhilosophyView the Source
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