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Shang Yang's Political Thought

This research is to discuss the Chinese pre-Qin legalist school, Shang Yang's political thought.
First, the purposes of the research are as follows:
1.To understand the background of Shang Yang¡¦s political thought and analyze the foundation of his political thought.
2.To discover the principles of Shang Yang¡¦s political thought.
3.From the principles of Shang Yang¡¦s political thought, analyze his political objectives.
4.To analyze Shang Yang¡¦s actual policies of agriculture and fight.
5.To sum up this research results to comment on Shang Yang's political thought.
Therefore, based on the purposes of the research, the principles of Shang Yang¡¦s political thought is rule by law, attempt to achieve the powerful nation. The concrete method is the policies of the agriculture and fight.
So, the following are the results of the analysis of this research:
1.Shang Yang advocates ¡¥rule by law.¡¦
2.Shang Yang promotes anti-wisdom.
3.Shang Yang advocates despotism.
4.Shang Yang contends that clear reward and hard punishment can make the monarch rule smoothly.
5.Shang Yang proposes that the monarch rules by the system, rather than by man.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0618108-154054
Date18 June 2008
CreatorsWang, Yuan-yuan
Contributorscs yao, Samuel C.Y. Ku, Roy Tseng
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0618108-154054
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