Fa (Standards: Laws) and Meaning Changes in Chinese Philosophy

Hansen, Chad

doi:10.2307/1399736

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“…[110] They were initially influenced by Mohist ideas. [111] A key figure of this school was administrator and political philosopher Shen Buhai (c. 400-337 BCE). [112] Another central figure, Shang Yang (390-338 BCE), was a leading statesman and reformer who transformed the Qin state into the dominant power that conquered the rest of China in 221 BCE.…”

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Eastern Philosophies

Cranier¹

2022

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Eastern philosophy or Asian philosophy includes the various philosophies that originated in East and South Asia, including Chinese philosophy, Japanese philosophy, Korean philosophy, and Vietnamese philosophy; all of these are dominant in East Asia and Vietnam, and Indian philosophy (including Hindu philosophy, Jain philosophy, Buddhist philosophy), which are dominant in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Tibet, and Mongolia.

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Eastern Philosophies

Cranier¹

2022

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“…Whether 'fa' changed its meaning to only refer to penal codes is disputed, but this does not affect its epistemic 8 role in judgment (Hansen 1994, Tan 2011). 'Dao' in pre-Qin texts admits several meanings: 'a physical course or path,' 'a course of things and affairs,' 'the 9 proper course of things and affairs,' 'an account of the (proper) course of things and affairs,' and 'the course of the natural or cosmic order.'…”

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Genealogy as Meditation and Adaptation with theHan Feizi

Wilson¹

2022

The Monist

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This paper focuses on an early Chinese conception of genealogical argumentation in the late Warring States text Han Feizi and a possible response it has to the problem of genealogical self-defeat as identified by Amia Srinivasan (2015)—i.e., the genealogist cannot seem to support their argument with premises their interlocutor or they themselves can accept, given their own argument. The paper offers a reading of Han Fei’s genealogical method that traces back to the meditative practice of an earlier Daoist text the Zhuangzi and its communicative strategy, providing a conception of genealogy aimed at undoing fixations on political systems in order to bring about a more adaptive state—specifically, genealogy that does not require epistemological commitment to its premises.

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“… It is, however, used in the narrower sense of ‘law’ in a variety of early texts. Hansen () argues that there is no shift of the meaning of the term fa in early China.…”

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