The Shangyang Thinking And Academic Research

The period of Philosophers before Qin Dynasty and a hundred viewpoints contending is the golden age of Chinese cultural development. The main achievement of this period is the three schools of Confucianism, Taoism and legists' coming into being. The ancestor of the legists can be traced to the Zhou Dynasty of Jiang shang. The legists before Qin Dynasty chiefly include Guan zhong, Li li, Wu qi, Shen Budao, Shang yang and the excellent Han fei. The thought of the legists is a complete, advanced and mature ideology. It made great contribution to the feudal govern which lasted nearly two thousand years. Count the legists before Qin Dynasty in full details, we can say that the most influential one to the world is Shang yang. The autarchy imperialism he established, the economic mode which focused on aruiculture, the obscurantism, grade privilege system, the idea of Xingshang constructed the Chinese feudal govern for almost two thousand years.The form of Shang yang's idea has its socialist, historical, and individual reasons. But the basic one is determined by the special cultural character. Cultural character means a certain culture decides the psychological character of a group of people. It is deposited by a whole set of value concept, cultural psychology and behavioral mode. When we confront a historical character like Shang yang, we can deeply feel the inner relationship between his great exploit and tragedy ending and his multiple cultural characters. This thesis expounds Shang yang's idea systematically from the political, law, economic and military aspects. Through investigating of its historical, moral, humanity and power aspects, this thesis gets to the bottom of the origin of the culture, practical base and historical deposits. From the view of value outlook and cultural outlook, it constructs Shang yang's cultural character. There are five parts in this thesis.Part One Political thoughtShang yang's political thought is the theoretical base of his law, economic and military thought, and it is also the base of his value outlook and cultural outlook. It includes the theoretical view of the origin of a nation, the essence of rule, strategy of ruling a country and tactics between Monarchs and Ministers, contradiction between laws and moral and obscurantism. Part Two The thought of lawShang yang's law has a vivid era character. It embodies the political opinion and advantage request of the landocracy in a revolutionary age, and it has greatly influenced the Chinese feudal system's forming and development.Part Three Economic thoughtShang yang's economic thought has a great position in the Philosophers before the Qin Dynasty. He put forward the theory of paying attention to the agriculture, and put his economic theory into practice. His theory of paying attention to agriculture has become a traditional economic theory with ethical character in our history.Part Four Military thoughtShang yang is a politics and he also is a militarist. He has the double character of political and military. Attaching great importance to law and army is Shang yang's main feature. His political, law, economic ideas are all serve for his military thought.Part Five Tracing the origin of the cultureAccording to the investigation of Shang yang's historical, moral, humanity, power outlook, this thesis gives full details of the cultural origin of thought, practical base, and historical deposits. From the view of value outlook and cultural outlook, it constructs Shang yang's cultural character.