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Title: Han Feizi
Condition: New
Translator: Burton Watson
Contributor: Burton Watson (Translated by)
Author: Burton Watson
Subtitle: Basic Writings
EAN: 9780231129695
ISBN: 9780231129695
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 05/14/2003
ISBN-10: 0231129696
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Language: English
Description: Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concerned with the nature and use of power. Han Feizi (280?-233 B.C.), a prince of Han, was a representative of the Fa-chia, or Legalist, school of philosophy and produced the final and most readable exposition of its theories. His handbook for the ruler deals with the problems of strengthening and preserving the state, the way of the ruler, the use of power, and punishment and favor. Ironically, the ruler most influenced by Han Feizi, the king of Qin, eventually sent Han Feizi to prison, where he later committed suicide.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
Release Year: 2003

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