Political And Ideological Constraints Of Pre - Qin Confucian School Of Law For The Rich Thought

Western Zhou Dynasty witnessed china crossed the threshold of the slave society characterized as clan rules and such as the reflection of clan rules and its thoughts made their appearances felt in the form of " rite" and " law " . The period of Spring-Autumn and Warring-states was the transitional period when china was to develop from a slave society with clan rules to a feuda society. The popularity of " filial love " thought and the development of"virtue" idea prompted the division between civility rule and law rule? hence the establishment of Confucianism .The Law School Emerged In the process of reform intruduction in the Warring -States Period and encountered contradiction with Confucian in their respective political proposition, "civility versus law " and "selfcultivation wersus aggressive conquest" .The two schools parted from each other in their political propositions at every stage, confucius created the political ethics and moral systems with benevolence at their cores ; Mencius advocated Good Human Mature and stressed chivalry, his political ideals being "humantarian rule"; Hsun-Kwang insisted that there should be division between heaven and human being and that there was only Bad Human Nature .He stressde rite and thereby decluded systematic content of fule by rituals. On the part of the school of law, one of its representatives, Shang Yang, strongly opposed to moral teaching and held" rite-music " edifying of Confucianism in contempt . He also opposed to looking back upon the fore fathers in governing .Han Fei-tzu was considered to have achieved most in the law school when he combined " law, ruling arts", and "strength" and proposed to govern the country by law, his "rule by serious law" being completely opposite to "government through virtue" proposed by confucius. Between the two extreme schools were the school of guanzi, whose policica view was gentle for its insistance on a coexistence of both rite and law .For their respective views on politics representatives on both sides . Confucian and law school. elaborated their own idea about building up the country . confucius focused on the idea of "Virtue over interest", which helped to lay a foundation of tradition for chindes prople to attach more importance to farming ever since .Mencius proposed the idea " subjects over prince " . In aryuirg against "rule by force", he listed specific measures by "giving people means of riches" independent household production style based on private-ownership of means of production in a feudal society .Benefiltiry from concluding the Confucian for a time , Hsun Tzu accepted both self-cultivation and aggressive conquest .With a new concept of " strengthering farming "?" economiziry expenditure " and " Increasing Income through timiying costs " > someting similar to the law schools' in "helping farming while limitting commerce " .Shang Yang ,stressed that the state could be bulit stronger in building up strong troop to rule the country, the prince should adopt a policy of " a united farming-and fighting " . For his partial evalution of farming , shang yang developde the farming only by sucrificing commerce with the underlying idea of "concentrating on farming while forbidding comenercial activities. "Another branch in the school , the brunch of guanzi advocated"interest and desire" theory. While most members from the group noticed the association between farming and industrial-commercial activities and therefore advocated the development of latter, some representatives proposed strengthening farming while forbidding other activities " .Han Fei-Tzu advocated accomplishing the endeavour of unification through developing both farming an military forces. In advocating " developing farming while restraining business" and in rewarding fanning and military merits, Han Fei-Tzu advocated accomplishing the endeavour of unification through developing both farming and military forces .In advocating " developing farming while restraining business" and in rewarding farming and military merits, Han Fei...