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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. His handbook for the ruler deals with the problems of strengthening and preserving the state, the way of the ruler, the use of power, and punishment and favor. 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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Topic
PhilosophySubtopic
Eastern PhilosophyIndex
Administration; see also Authority; Laws; Ministers; Power; Punishments; Rewards; Rights; Ruler
Agriculture passim
Ai, duke of Lu
Allies, reliance on, as source of peril
An, king of Han
Anxi, king of Wei
Artisans
Attendants, danger to ruler from
Authority
Ba, Five
Bao Shuya
Barbarians, Western
Baseness of manner
Bedfellows, danger to ruler from
Benevolence
Bi Gan, prince
Bian He, see He, Mr.
Bifang (god)
Bo Luo
Boli Xi
Book of Documents
Book of Lord Shang
Book of Odes
Cai (city)
Cai (territory)
Cai Yu
Cang Jie
Cap-and-girdle states
Change, necessity of, passim
Changping (city)
Chen Qiyou
Chen Zhen
Cheng Tang
Children, danger to ruler from
Chiyou (god)
Chonger, prince of Jin; see also Wen, duke of Jin
Chu (state)
Chu Mountains
Chuiji, jade of
Confucians, passim
Confucius
Consorts, danger to ruler form
Courtesy, failure in, as source of disaster
Cranes, black
Crow, in the sun
Dantai Ziyu
Dao, king of Chu
Daodejing (Laozi)
Daoism; language of, in Han Feizi
Deeds (results)
Dengling Family School
Di (tribe)
Dian family
Dictators, Five, see Ba, Five
Doctrines, contradictory
Dong Guanyu
Drill Man
Dry Valley
Duan Gui
Eclipses
Elders, danger to ruler from
Eloquence
Extravagance
Fa (laws)
Fajia school, see Legalist school
Fan family
Fangcheng (city)
Father of the Ruler, see Wuling, king of Zhao
Faults, ten
Favor, see Rewards
Feng (region)
Fire, discovery of
First Emperor of the Qin
Five Ba, see Ba Five
Flood, control of
Forms, Han Feizi’s concept
Funerals
Gain, petty
Gao Yan, see Guo Yan
Gaolang (territory)
Gong, duke of Cao
Gong, Honest
Gong, king of Chu
Gong Zhiqi
Gonggong (tribe?)
Gongsun Yang, see Wei Yang
Gongzhong Peng
Goods, abundance and...
Table of contents
- CoverÂ
- Half title
- Editorial Board
- Title
- Copyright
- ContentsÂ
- Outline of Early Chinese History
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Way of the Ruler
- On Having Standards
- The Two Handles
- Wielding Power
- The Eight Villainies
- The Ten Faults
- The Difficulties of Persuasion
- Mr. He
- Precautions Within the Palace
- Facing South
- The Five Vermin
- Eminence in Learning
- Index
- Series List