cnleio
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Thank you, bro !Yes, yes ! My university professor of Chinese Classical Literature was a true and ardent idealist. He was a Confucian supporter and in fact i took 3 elective courses with him regarding Chinese literature, and its interesting that if you study confucianism too much you become an idealist, and you begin to think in the abstract ! lol. That's why i always joked with my Chinese lilt professor that if you take his class, we should also take theoretical physics. hahahaha!
I learned about Mohism before, yes, its very pragmatic, i think he was defintely works well with the legalism that was espoused by 商鞅 (Shang Yang).
BTW, if you want to appreciate some of the great works of Mencius, i recommend you read the translation of : 四書
About 商鞅(Shang Yang), he was the representative of China Legalists ... be good at legislation and praise rule by laws, it's the earliest laws in Whole World ... but worse is they also good at playing power tactics & power struggles, the more study legalism the more depravity of human nature. So most Legalists end is very sad !
There'r two things Legalism like: 1. rule by laws 2. ambition by wars
Legalism is not good for China, coz easily develop to extremism like Nazi !
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