The Relationship Between Legalism Utilitarian Value Orientation And The Rise Of Qin

After the Shang Yang Reform In the reign of King qin xiao,Qin began to flourish.Although Qin was one of the Spring and Autumn Hegemons,and introduced a certain degree of the feudal system reform,its advantage was not prominent before Shang Yang Reform.In the war for hegemony and mergers,qin was in the difficult situation.After the Shang Yang Reform,its situation began to improve.Shang Yang's Reform make the feudal system reform of Qin,more comprehensive, more systematic, and more thorough. Therefore Qin has become the first strong national Sengoku,and has laid the foundation of the Empire. In the Spring and Autumn, a time change, social unrest, Age of revolution, Various thinkers from different standpoint expressed a different attitude to the slavery superstructure and the salvation feelings of how to change the current chaos situation at the time.It led to the utilitarian and the moral struggle in Pre-Qin times——The emergence of Righteousness Debate.The dispute process showed Evolution from the moral to the utilitarian of ethics in Pre-Qin times.And it ended with the practice of the extreme Utilitarian thinking of legalism in Qin.The evolution of the thought process consistent with the objective situation of the unity by the division to unification.It is a logical result After number ideas practiced right or wrong in the question of salvation. To meet individual needs is the internal driving force of human activities. Personal profit motive have the reasonable value. The legalism just reflect the reasonable value.Legalist utilitarian thinking found a system of soil in qin.Legalist utilitarian thinking and Qin historical and cultural conditions in line. Qin rulers have been regarded Legalist utilitarian thinking as a guiding principle in managing state affairs. With the strong sustained and effective protection of monarchical power,Qin build its own system.Qin's system construction reflects the Legalist "personal interests" as the core of the utilitarian value orientation.Such a system constructed in line with the features of period of great change,And To a certain extent,it achieved the liberation of the human in the collapse of slavery and the gradual formation of the feudal society.It is the utilitarian-oriented systems that facilitated the rise of Qin.laid the utilitarian-oriented system foundation a unified feudal system of the country has been established.It also gives us some inspiration of the building of a harmonious society today.