HIST 2710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chinese Calendar, Cius, Censorate
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Common question in spring and autumn and warring states periods: What to do in the disorder & miseries of our time? . Legalism: obedient officials, farmers, army ruler"s weath and power strict laws for rich rewards and brutal punishments clear rules, quickly enforced shaping behaviour by intimidation, greed. Order and stability rule by law (not rule of law ) Rule by law ruler uses law instrument and it not subjected to it unlike rule of law short-term success: harsh authoritarianism qin empire harsh rule qin collapse. Now that there is peace and order all under heaven", how do we make it last? . Confucian family ethics for social-political order + milder forms of legalist rules for control of people + yin-yang ideas for explanation of politics, etc. Refers to the two sides of a hill. Common to various schools of thought of warring states period: summarized in han.