Wang Fuzhi's Comments About How To Be An Emperor

Wang Fuzhi analysed the faults of the emperors and the reasonable policies of the emperors in “Comments about History as a Mirror” and “ Comments about Song Dynasty”.This paper further analyzes Wang Fuzhi's exposition,and then from the overall grasp of Wang Fuzhi's thought about how to be an emperor.There is a close relationship between ideal way for the emperors and the views on the emperorship of Wang Fuzhi.His views on the emperorship and his thought about how to be an emperor is the relationship between the source and flow,the two can be cross referenced.Grasp Wang Fuzhi's thought about how to be an emperor in a macroscopic way,combing the analysis of the views on the emperorship of Wang Fuzhi,help to evaluate his thought properly.Because Wang Fuzhi learned about the cruelty and absurdity of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty,experienced the reality of alien bullying,he worked in reading history and thinking,to seek salvation recipe.His thought about how to be an emperor is of historical reflection,also placed his vision of the future political.His criticism of the emperors mainly concentrated in four aspects: harm public interest because of selfishness,eager to reach the target,short-sighted,inadequate cultivation.His praise of the emperors mainly concentrated in four aspects: to find the reasons from their own,calm,sincere,respect,fear,without emotion,broad-minded.Wang Fuzhi's ideal of statecrafts is mainly embodied in the emperors of the self cultivation of mind.Wang Fuzhi's attitude to the emperorship is mainly conservative : monarch reigned supreme,sovereignty is sacred;adhere to the monarch is the center of the minister;his thoughts to limit monarchial power still did not jump out of the framework of traditional Confucian,and there is no separation of powers from the regime to limit the power of the emperor;for replacement of imperatorial power,he made concessions and adjustments only in front of the righteous cause of the nation,still stubbornly maintain monarchical power.From the overall perspective,although it is an objective and dialectical thinking on the politics of the emperor,which for the political civilization construction of today still has important implications,Wang Fuzhi's thought about how to be an emperor still did not barriers to breakthrough the imperial autocracy,and ultimately can only be is "Saint not open a replay of the kingly way" tragedy.