Han Fei is his real name.
Han Fei (about 280 BC - 233 BC), also known as Han Feizi, was a native of Xinzheng (now Xinzheng City, Henan Province). An outstanding thinker, philosopher and essayist during the Warring States Period, and a representative figure of Legalism.
Han Fei was a Korean aristocrat during the Warring States Period. He was born around 280 BC in Xinzheng, the capital of Korea at the end of the Warring States Period (now the ancient city of Zhenghan, Xinzheng City, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province). At that time, war was raging among the six countries. In order to avoid cholera, Han Fei's family had to flee to a village in Zhumadian.
As a child of an aristocrat, Han Fei was determined to do a big business, revitalize his family, and make Korea prosperous since he was a child. Therefore, he traveled around the country alone at a young age and worked hard to learn the ideas of each family along the way.
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Han Fei’s main achievements:
1. Feudal autocracy
Han Fei advocated the establishment of a unified central government in the national political system In a centralized feudal autocratic country, Han Feizi's political thought of combining "law", "technique" and "power" is an important content of feudal autocratic thought. Han Fei also inherited some of Xunzi's thoughts on feudal autocracy and further theorized and systematized them, thus becoming an advocate of feudal autocracy.
2. Correspondence between name and reality
Han Fei also advocated "correspondence between name and reality", believing that the monarch should determine merits, demerits, rewards and punishments based on whether the subjects' speeches are consistent with their actual achievements. Regarding the people, he absorbed the theory of "nature is inherently evil" from his teacher Xunzi, believing that people's nature is to "hate work but love leisure". Only by restraining the people by law and inflicting punishment on the people can "forbid rape in the bud." ".
Therefore, he believed that inflicting punishment was precisely a manifestation of loving the people. ("Han Zi·Xindu"). What is easy to overlook is that Han Fei advocated reducing the people's corvee and taxes. He believed that severe corvee and taxation would only make his subordinates stronger and were not conducive to the king's rule.
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