 | Randall P. Peerenboom - 1993 - 408 頁
...present age.'" 35 Consequently, "it would be unfair," Bodde and Morris add, "to regard [Legalists] merely as unscrupulous power-hungry politicians, for...could eventual peace and unity be brought to their war torn world." 36 Han Fei, the story goes, lived in an embattled age: the moral order had all but... | |
 | Werner F. Menski - 2006 - 565 頁
...the state's territory abroad, and eventually weld all the rival kingdoms into a single empire. . . Their insistence on law, therefore, was motivated...peace and unity be brought to their wartorn world. Pragmatic legalist approaches signal some disillusionment with the idealistic assumptions of Taoist... | |
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Most of them were less theoretical thinkers than tough-minded men of affairs who, as administrators, diplomats, and political economists, sought employment from whatever state would use their services. Their aim was direct and simple: to create a political... 