| China's traditional culture is long and splendid, and the Legalists was considered as one of the most important school. The whole theory can be said to be rich in content and profound in thinking. Legalism is a traditional Chinese civilization and an important part of culture is very rich, only the existence of historical limitations, it is worth learning and inheritance contains reasonable elements. Include:Reform of salvation because of the time on, the power on to revive the economy, the rich reward of war on farming, and good evil, harm the interests of human nature, method of combining surgery Zunjun potential theory and the rule of law on the rule of law. Addition to the "rule of law", the legalism of the surgery treatment, potential cure is Legalism "rule of law" an important part of the strategy. Legalism "rule of law" strategy advocated law, potential, combined surgery.This paper mainly analyzes form the following aspects of the Legalists thinking:Frist, this paper introduces the Legalists theory, through displaying the original face of Legalists theory as far as possible lerather than according to the author's thinking to arbitrary explication. On this basis, this paper mainly focuses on the philosophy of Legalism and strives to explore theorderly understanding of the Legalists and seek the truth from facts, rightly using thecorrect Legalists strategy to analyze the rule of Legalists and the thought of Legalists, besides going deep to its reference to the development of the contemporary society. |