Research Of Han Feizi's Thought

The thought of《Han Feizi》is the import constituent of pre-qin thinking history . Refer to the book of《Han Feizi》,people has many disputeS to its philosophic thinking, ethics thought and its law for many years. This article collects the different thoughts existent in hand, and read carefully for all the different viewpoints, make a thorough research for his thought, and then propose my own view and the position, in order to give a original thought for the《Han Feizi》.The full text divides into three chapters: First chapter is the philosophic thinking of "Han Feizi". In this chapter, it lays out the ontology, the epistemology and the history of "Han Feizi" ,and has given a theoretic conclusion for the various views from pre-qin to now. The ontology of "Han Feizi" obviously manifests the tendency of morality,"jie lao""yu lao", one of the articles elaborate the materialism and the epistemology which is emphasized the practice. He pointed out that if a country indulged in the religion and the superstition, without thinking the transformation and enterprising, this will lead to perishes calamity of the country, it is obviously the viewpoint of atheism and the view of adjusting measures to local conditions.Second chapter is the ethics thought of "Han Feizi". This chapter Mainly elaborates six questions: the theory of human nature, the moral outlook, utilitarianism, the public and private view, the human communication principle based on the selfish self-defense, as well as Han Feizi's feminine ethics. Han Fei advocated that the human has the nature of self-interest, be apt to advantage but wicked evil, this has provided the theoretic basis for his thought of law. His moral outlook is quite complex. on the one hand, he opposed all sorts of morals which the Confucianism advocated; on the other hand, he also acknowledged the moral's existence and the moral's positive value for these people who has good moral, but he thought that if implements the virtuous rule, it would unable to achieve to rule the country by law. The Utilitarianism first carried on the relations of the justice and the profit and identify with its rationality in the side of performed meritrious deeds for the country. The Public and private view mainly elaborated Han Fei has the idea that we must obey the public, he also maintains the the monarchial power and the people's selfish desire are the oppositions. He is specially taken the award and punishment as two handles, people's private estate must be owned to the public. Han Fei's primary intention is apart from privately. Fifth section mainly discussed the human communication principle based on the selfish self-defense, the sixth sections emphasis elaborated Han Fei's feminine ethics view in the foundation of the selfish self-defense contact principle.Third chapter is "Han Feizi" government by law theory. First section is to deny the Confucianism virtuous rule principle, second discusses that the government governs the national by law is the only effective method, third provides that the law, the technique and the potential Trinity is incorporated, fourth discusses the relations between morals and the laws, fifth is said that we must have the idea of"study from the law and the history", sixth is the management thought which based on the government by law.The last chapter makes a summary for all the problems which researched by "Han Feizi", and has given the briefing to this article's innovation and deficiency.