Legalism

Legalism -Han Fei Zu created legalism -7 parasites of society(Shang Yang)(these are not needed, contrary to confucian beliefs): - People need to be ruled by laws because people are naturally bad and will do bad unless controlled by the law - Following the rules is mandatory for everyone - Authority is enforced - Relies in the the status/name of the positions, not the person himself/herself - A branch of Confucianism (Han Fei Zu was a student of Xunzi - who was a Confucian)
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+ Legalism Came from Confucianism, which Came out of The Warring States Period due to people wanting a stable society. Legalism was the philosophy that was needed to unify china. It was the "dirty work" of the (the Qin were legalists...) Qin because they were strict enough to go through with the things needed to unify china. Some of those things were fighting bloody wars, creating a strict code of law and enforcing it. They did not care if people were happy. The Han dynasty could not have unified china.


 * Legalists do not care if you are happy or unhappy with society
 * People are not expected to do good. They are not allowed to do what is not good and that is why there is such a strict code of law.
 * The ultimate goal is to follow the laws no matter who you are, and fulfill their duty in society, nothing more.

-matthew saporito ( I didn't do all of it....about a quarter. no one else left their name)
 * according to legalism
 * the king is also bad and must be controlled by laws
 * Humans cannot be trusted ~ to the extent that people are expected to never overstep what they are supposed to do
 * an example: story of when the hat guy covered his master with a blanket even though it wasn't his job. The Legalist master punished not only the blanket man (who didn't do what he was supposed to), but also the hat man, who overstepped his expected boundaries and covered him with a blanket.