A Study Of The Political Philosophy Of "Si Tao"

The Six Arts of War is most famous for its comprehensive and conclusive contents of all the military strategists’ thoughts in the Pre-Qin Times. As the representative of military strategists’ thought in the middle and late Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period, it is always attracting the attention of many scholars. The birth of the Six Arts of War is given by the gradual unity of numerous schools of thoughts during the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods and by the fruitful war practices at the same time. In such a specific background, the biggest feature of The Six Arts of War, with a strong guidance and utilitarian, is that it absorbs the essence of those schools of thoughts.The study on the "The Six Arts," has been attributed to the art of war areas, but as a book of previously maximum length and involving the most comprehensive issues, many other warrelated factors such as political, economic and other important aspects are also discussed. However, the thoughts and the value of political ideology are often ignored by people. The book, written in the form of questions and answers between the emperor and Jiang Taigong, elaborated the political strategies of how to govern the country and how to lead people, which provides political guarantee for the winning of the war. Therefore, "The Six Arts" is not just an art of war, but a book with a powerful spirit, concerns significantly how to rule the country. It bases the political ideology on Confucianism and Taoism philosophical doctrines, treats Legalism and Mohism as its trunk, and Naturalists as its leaves. It is about the theory of ruling the country by absorbing the advantages of various schools of thoughts for its own use. As an important part of military science of Jiang Taigong’s thoughts, it is worthy of our detailed research back from its source.The Six Arts, the article study the thought of political philosophy in its historical context, and Laozi and Xunzi, pipe transverse comparison, everything is done, and others thought, The Six Arts, political philosophy thought source for longitudinal, overall and thorough research on its political philosophy ideological system. Overall this paper is divided into three parts, the first part is to a certain \ "six towers\" the book is introduced and textual research, make the reader in reading some idea of the original; The second part is analysis on the harmony of the six towers, summary and analysis of the encyclopedia metaphysical philosophy based on the thought of political, military and so on, the third part is the political philosophy, namely governance theory as the physical part, compare, agent, which is divided into five parts, one is the concept of The Six Arts, monarch, the second is the six towers “wu wei lun”, three is the concept of benevolent governance The Six Arts, four is the six towers, your method of thought, of the five is the six towers, attaching thought; The fourth part, generalizes The Six Arts in political philosophy, and on the depth of the idea further.