Flowers in a mirror: Critique of ‘Confucianization of law’

IF 0.5 2区哲学 0 ASIAN STUDIES

ASIAN PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2022-04-26 DOI:10.1080/09552367.2022.2066990

K. Sun

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The theory of ‘Confucianization of law’ put forward by T’ung-tsu Ch’ü in his book titled Law and Society in Traditional China has a great academic influence in the world. However, ‘Confucianization of law’ is like ‘flowers in a mirror’ because its concept is too one-sided and ambiguous to describe ancient Chinese legal philosophy. Although it once has helped non-Chinese understand ancient Chinese legal philosophy, it is essentially a hypothesis of Ch’ü after reading limited historical materials and easily leading to a simple understanding of the dichotomy of Confucianism and Legalism in ancient Chinese legal philosophy. To distinguish the origin, concept, and related disputes of ‘Confucianization of law’ is helpful to discover the multicultural background of ancient Chinese legal philosophy and find the fact that Confucianism itself is alienated by politics. From the perspective of political pragmatism, there is no difference between Confucianism and Legalism in essence, but in means.

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镜中花：对“法律儒家化”的批判

摘要汤在《传统中国的法律与社会》一书中提出的“法的儒家化”理论在世界范围内具有重要的学术影响。然而，“法的儒家化”就像“镜中花”，因为它的概念过于片面和模糊，无法描述中国古代的法律哲学。虽然它曾经帮助非中国人理解了中国古代法哲学，但它本质上是Ch’ü在阅读了有限的史料后的一种假设，很容易导致对中国古代法哲中儒法二分法的简单理解。厘清“法儒化”的渊源、概念及相关争议，有助于揭示中国古代法哲学的多元文化背景，发现儒家思想本身被政治异化的事实。从政治实用主义的角度来看，儒家和法家在本质上没有区别，只是在手段上有区别。

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期刊介绍： Asian Philosophy is an international journal concerned with such philosophical traditions as Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Buddhist and Islamic. The purpose of the journal is to bring these rich and varied traditions to a worldwide academic audience. It publishes articles in the central philosophical areas of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, moral and social philosophy, as well as in applied philosophical areas such as aesthetics and jurisprudence. It also publishes articles comparing Eastern and Western philosophical traditions.