Study On Political Philosophy Thoughts Of Han Fei

This article mainly focuses on political thoughts of Han Fei on the basis of previous studies. As discussed hereby, Han Fei's thoughts are deemed and interpreted as an important part of the unique system of Chinese traditional politics which has its own philosophical foundation and specific set of the system. This article also pays particular attention to the interpretation of Han Fei's basic issues in accordance with the relationships among relevant basic concepts - such as "Law", "Operation," "Potential," "Public", "Private" and so on - in order to disclose their content accurately with a view to the pre-Qin background and promote researches on the concepts of Chinese traditional politics.Han Fei's political ideology is provided with its philosophical foundation, which is mainly embodied in his concept of truth, human nature and history. Hence, this article emphasizes to inspect the above-mentioned concepts in the logic development process of ancient philosophy. Firstly, concerning the primitive issues of "Tao", the thoughts of "Yellow School" reflected in the "Four Scriptures of the Yellow Emperor," hold the same opinion with Taoism; on the other hand, while Taoism considered inaction as "Tao", "Yellow School" supported different ideas and used "Emptily", "Esse" to explain "Tao", which tended to more objective and similar to Han Fei's relevant thoughts. Secondly, with the impact from Xun Zi, Han Fei's thinking on "Truth" carried great dynamic. During the discussion on Han Fei's theory of human nature in recent years, both the traditional "Evil Human Nature Theory" and "Non-moral Theory" have met theoretical challenges. However, the analogy hereby suggests that the foregoing theories, which take "Desire" and "Benefit" as reasons to analyze the traditional conclusion on Han Fei's "Evil Human Nature Theory", are limited and could not be considered as an foundation. Thus, in consideration of human nature, this fact below should not be ignored -it is Han Fei's "Non-moralism" which constitutes the philosophical foundation of incorporate political thinking of "Law", "Operation", "Potential". Thirdly, Han Fei emphasized the changes of eras in consideration of history, his view and discuss on "Present is better than the ancient" indicate an similar position, but not exactly the same, to the theory of Evolution History, as he did not set the future of history. Therefore, only if we understand Han Fei's view on history, his standpoints in discussing present and ancient can be comprehended correctly, as well as the "Change" ideas.In accordance with the above philosophy thoughts, Han Fei started his study on political philosophy - the ideals of the principles of political theory and related defense. Talking of country issues, he realized that the vassal states of the time had become independent political entities. Therefore, Han Fei explored the relationship between the country and these vassal states with objective and materialistic methods, created his integrated ideas on country regime among the state politics of "Power Hegemony", which prevailed external strength and internal power centralization. Han Fei also took "Governance" as a political ideal and believed that there was a "Utopia" with "Governance", meanwhile, he also envisaged the current power struggle realistically and suggested to realize the political target between the ideal and reality by enriching the state and equipping the army. Han Fei's "Rule of Law" is not a sense of modern political philosophy, but as a genre of pre-Qin political and ideological thoughts, its rational components could not be denied. Since "Rule of Law" is a central topic of modern and contemporary studies on Han Fei, researchers usually base themselves upon two levels - taking the "Rule of Law" as "Operation", being corresponding with the modern Western world's "Democracy and Law" which is opposite to "Despotism". The questions during the modern and contemporary studies on the above levels has disclosed an important proposition - whether there are useful resources from traditional political theory, including Han Fei's thoughts, for modern "Democracy and Law" to learn. In fact, this proposition has already indicated the significance of studies on Han Fei's political philosophy.