This will be combined with the overall historical time of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. At first, they helped some China to seek hegemony, which was reflected in the existence of "five tyrants" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. For example, Guan Zhong assisted Qi Huangong to become the hegemon, suppressed other vassal states in strength, and played the banner of "respecting the king and rejecting foreign countries" to keep other countries away from the Zhao family. For another example, Luochuan later assisted Chu to mourn the king, which was a manifestation of China's hegemony. Later, it helped the Principality to become a kingdom, mainly in the State of Qin, which was actually the greatest achievement of Legalists.
0 1 After Qin changed from a principality to a kingdom and from a kingdom to an empire, Shang Yang reformed, and Qin actually changed from a principality to a kingdom. They are no longer vassal kings influenced by key political and metallurgical traditions. The king's power has been improved, China's political and administrative system has been strengthened, and the people have been bound under a framework. The role of law is vividly reflected, and the organs of state power are relatively concentrated.
Later, Qin applied Han Fei's theory to turn the kingdom into an empire, which led to the rise of the empire in Daqin. In fact, this is due to the political idea of Legalism, and because the first emperor ruled the world with one sword, it is actually a household name, and the idea of Legalism is also regarded as the national ideology of Daqin Empire.
In fact, the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty was "learning from Confucianism", so in the end, there was only one brilliant legalist in hundred schools of thought before Qin Dynasty. Naturally, this glory did not last long. Taking Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty as an example, he deposed hundreds of schools and respected stereotyped writing as a scholar, and the traditional Confucian politics and metallurgy prevailed. But the problem is, even though Confucianism was designated as the ideology of the Han Dynasty by Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the real ruling mode practiced by Liu Che in the Han Dynasty was not only the traditional political metallurgical style of Confucianism, but also the role of Legalism under the phenomenon of Confucianism, which is called "learning from Confucianism", so on the whole, Legalism must be the most successful.
Legalist school is a realistic pragmatic school. Secondly, the practice of Legalists is more useful than any other one. As you mentioned above, a method is successful and effective, but it does not mean that it is the most correct. Legalism is such a school. Compared with Confucianism, Mohism and Taoism, Legalism is a pragmatic school, which is also one of their key differences. In other words, Legalists are modernism, while Confucianism, Mohism and Taoism are idealism.
Idealism has a very distinctive feature, that is, in the heart of idealism, one's own theory holds that the idea must be better, at best, it is favored, and at best, it has a very worthy geographical existence.
But what is the specific function of this view? This is not in the category of idealism, so the theory of idealism is very easy to be divorced from the real society, which is also your biggest problem. Realists, on the other hand, are just the opposite of idealism. For realists, whether the scheme is better or not is not a tangled point. I don't care how it is, but it must be effective, which is what legalists do.
You can't say that the legalist position and viewpoint are more correct, especially when the concept of ruling the country by law in an all-round way just appeared. There must be such systematic loopholes, just like when Shang Yang's political reform just implemented his own reform and reform, it really had bones accumulated. Because the implementation of new ideas has touched many people's rights and interests, at the same time, some people can't accept new ideas because of the shackles of ideas. Therefore, in order to carry out political reform and reform, they can only resort to arrogant means.
According to historical records, in order to carry out the reform of Shang Yang's political reform, more than 700 prisoners were executed in one day, which made Wei Shui completely popular. In addition to these, Shang Yang's political reform finally gave his life and died in the punishment of car crack. This is actually an overbearing method. As we all know, the reform and reform of Qin was formed by the deposition of blood and water.
Adhering to the concept of "human nature is evil", Han Fei carried out severe punishment and severe law in Qin State. From this result and process, we can see that the reform and transformation of Legalists must be correct. Not necessarily. The greatness of legalist school, besides Shang Yang's reform, also depends on his understanding of human nature. In other words, in Han Fei's mind, a person is evil from birth, and they have the essence of developing to evil again.
Therefore, on this basis, in order to prevent people from being hurt by their own inherent evil and damage the development of the times, we can only restrain the personal behavior of the public through severe punishment and severe law, and the Daqin Empire, which inherited the concept of Han Fei, also ruled the world through severe punishment and severe law. What is the result? It's people's livelihood.
Therefore, the legalist reform may not be more correct, and its views and ideas may not conform to everyone's ideas, but the question is, what does it matter if the symbols do not conform? Does it matter if it's appropriate or not? At least it worked then.
In the era of chaos, Confucian morality has been unable to play a binding role. Because of the chaos of that era, the hierarchical management system in the world has been seriously affected, and it will no longer be bound by Confucian morality. Therefore, there are few moral bottom lines and principles in the personal behavior of the public. In this case, we can only demand a principle and bottom line in a mandatory way, and in this way, we can restrain the personal behavior of the public.
Only in this way can we standardize people's lives and find the law of a country's sustainable development. Therefore, under the overall planning of Legalist political thought, the state of Qin is in good order, and the development trends in all aspects are particularly practical. Whether it is national defense, administrative departments or economic development, it is effective.
Don't worry, don't worry about what you think of him. Everyone thinks it's inappropriate. At least everyone succumbs to this rule and system, and under this rule and system, it has brought great benefits to the country, making Qin a sudden emergence and becoming a more prosperous vassal during the Warring States period. This is useful. From this point of view, legalists are absolutely pragmatic.
Legalism is a school of realism. Furthermore, there is another reason why Legalists are realistic schools, which is related to the role identity of Legalists. In fact, all the pre-Qin philosophers mean "scholar", but there are differences in types. In other words, factions and classes are different.
Confucianism, Mohism and Taoism mostly sit and talk about Taoism. No one knows whether it is useful or not, and no one wants to take care of it, but the legalists have made their own way according to their rampage. That's all. If you have any ideas, please leave a message in the comments section.