Chapter 167: The Law Is Not Omnipotent
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Legalist thought, as a major faction, put forward the proposition and concept of the rule of law that is still far-reaching to this day.
This is enough to see the great importance they attach to the rule of law and to regard the law as a coercive instrument conducive to social domination.
These ideas, which embody the building of the legal system, have been used to this day and have become the main means of ruling by the centralists to stabilize social turmoil. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Legalist thought, as a major faction, put forward the idea and concept of the rule of law that still has far-reaching influence, which is enough to see that they attached great importance to the legal system and regarded the law as a compulsory tool conducive to social rule.
Legalism seems to be far away from us, but in fact Legalism is too important, and the rulers of various dynasties ostensibly pursue "Confucianism", but in fact use "law".
In other words, they talk about Confucian benevolence and righteousness, but in fact the rulers are governing the country according to Legalist standards.
Therefore, there are also sayings of "Yang, Confucianism, and Yin" and "Confucianism".
In Legalism, there are also classic sentences such as Confucianism, Taoism, and Mo.
For example, in "Han Feizi": go to good and evil, and the minister is to see the element; Go to the old and go to the wise, and the minister is self-prepared.
It is said that the monarch hides his likes and dislikes, so that he can see the true face of his subordinates; Throwing away old prejudices and not revealing their wisdom will make their subordinates perform their duties.
It is also reasonable to replace the gentleman with the role of leader, boss, and boss, and the subordinate into the role of worker, clerk, and subordinate.
So if the leaders and bosses show their likes and dislikes, then the subordinates will cater to the boss to do what the boss likes.
For example, bosses like subordinates to have pursuits, and think that talents with ideals and pursuits are good, so subordinates will think about "pursuits" outside of work all day long. Those who work quietly are instead considered by their bosses to have "no ideals". Then the people who work quietly have to be distracted to do what they think about their work in order to cater to the preferences of their superiors.
Maybe the boss just unintentionally expressed his likes and dislikes when chatting, but said that those who want to please the boss make a note of it, and think about pandering to the boss's preferences all day long, and be a person who is "satisfied with the boss" in the eyes of the boss.
So as an employee, if you don't want to work but to please the boss, your work efficiency will definitely decline.
The wisdom of the ancients is still relevant today.
The goal of the hundred schools of thought is to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and the Legalists are no exception.
Legalists believe that it is necessary to "strengthen the country and weaken the people", put the people in poverty and weakness, and then use the means of rewards and punishments, so that the people can follow the orders and overcome their own difficulties in order to go to the ploughing war, and only when the people work hard to plough and fight can the country become strong and prosperous. In the view of the Legalists, a rich country and a rich people, a strong country and a strong people are opposites, and the two cannot be both.
The Legalist theory of "strengthening the country and weakening the people" embodies the issue of the boundary between the rights and obligations of the state and the people. On this issue, Legalism advocates the unlimited expansion of state rights and the narrowing of people's interests, which embodies Legalism's totalitarianism.
Under the rule of law of the Legalists, the rich are only the country, not the family, and the strong are only soldiers, not the people.
In the view of Legalists, heavy punishment is the source of strength and the root of the prohibition of crime, which can lead to "no punishment".
That is to say, as long as the punishment system is heavy enough to make people afraid, then no one will not be allowed to abide by the "law", so Legalism is also "heavy punishment".
In fact, Legalists and Legalists have the word "law" on their names, of course, they are theories that pay attention to "law"!
As I said before, all schools of thought are one of the goals of social harmony, and in the eyes of Legalists, it is very simple to want harmony! Heavy punishment is enough!
For example, Confucianism still emphasizes benevolence, virtue and filial piety from an early age, how troublesome it is! Directly formulate a law and a standard, for example, if you want to achieve the goal of filial piety, then formulate a regulation on "filial piety", such as what punishment you will receive if you don't respect your parents, what punishment you will receive if you don't listen to your parents, etc., then you can't get it?
As long as this punishment is severe enough, I don't believe that no one does not follow this rule!
Therefore, compared with other schools, the Legalist approach is really simple and crude.
As a social phenomenon, law does not exist from the beginning, but only appears at a certain historical stage in the development of human society, which determines the limitations of the law itself, it cannot be omnipotent, it has its lag, and it cannot involve all aspects of social life. It is true that the law has an irreplaceable and important role as the regulator of human class society, but if its role is infinitely expanded, it will have a negative effect.
The death of Qin II is proof of this. Legalists demand that "everything is judged by the law", denying the role of morality, and committing the mistake of legal omnipotence.
Although the law is supreme in a modern society governed by the rule of law, it still needs the mediating role of morality to alleviate social contradictions. If everything is regulated by law, unless it is a robot, it can do it.
The reason why a person is a human being is because he has feelings, and the law is not omnipotent, and what should be about human feelings and morality is that the "law" still has to make relative concessions, and it will not work to blindly follow the rules and regulations without paying attention to human feelings.
Of course, at this time in this world, the recognized founder of Legalism, "Teacher Suixin", is deeply poisoned by the "Fa".
"Oops!"
"Xiaoxin, you just said 'it', right?" Between classes, Jing Jing, who was sitting next to Ling Xin, shook his fist.
Ling Xin covered the top of her head with both hands, which was injured for the fifth time today, and it is estimated that if it was in the anime, the bags on the top of her head would be folded into a gourd string.
Because his hands were busy covering the top of his head with bursts of pain, he had no time to wipe the two teardrops hanging from the corners of his eyes, so he could only let the two tears flicker at the corners of his eyes.
Ling Xin was spreading out a "EON Boy" comic magazine borrowed from Ning Zetao behind her.
"I'm just sighing that the ending of this "Dragon's Blood" is too pitiful! The protagonist actually died in a car accident! I'm just complaining to myself! Ling Xin protested with tears in the corners of her eyes.
The big eyes seemed to be wet because of the tears, and it seemed that because of the pain on the top of the head, the little face was wrinkled all the time, and the kind of aggrieved, wet little eyes were about to soften when they saw the tranquility.
No, no, no! I'm doing this for her good! If she can't hold on, why should she be her friend?!
Jing Jing suddenly closed her eyes and shook her head vigorously a few times, and then when she opened her eyes and looked at Ling Xin, the wavering in her eyes had disappeared.
"You can't talk to yourself!"
"That'...... Can you stop hitting me on the head? Today, the top of my head has been knocked three times by Sister Rou, Xiaoqian, and you, a total of five times! I'm going to get dizzy if I knock it again! Ling Xin tried her best to fight for even a little bit of power for herself.
"Oh, that's right, okay, I'll change the punishment next time you do it again......"
Tranquility said and took out a ruler from the drawer, that's a ruler, right?
How do you feel like it's a centimeter thick?! It's a stick, right?!
"Teacher Lin said that she still needs to use the ring ruler and can't lend it to me, but she lent me this one as a backup......" (To be continued.) )