The Discussion Of "Ming" In Han Fei-zi

This article is focus on the understanding of the concept of Ming in the later period of Warring State. By study the idea of Ming in the classics named Han fei-zi which came into being at the later period of Warring State to summarize the status and function of Ming in Pre-Qin Philosophy and social thought generally.The paper does up the main theories of Ming of the doctrine of the exponents which has great influence, including the Confucius’s Naming doctrine, the inheritance and development of Ming from Xunzi in Xunzi Zhengming, the effect of Ming between’something’and’nothing’as a bridge in Lao Tzu’s thought and the ideology of Daoism,the rule of law and the Chinese Machiavelli doctrine, as well as the logic of the position of the School of Ming and Neo-MohismWith reference to the exponents’discussion about Ming and the classification of several kinds of Ming before Han Fei-zi, this paper divides Ming into five types, including identifying and confirming, praising and blaming, fames and positions, investigating and checking, laws. The identifying and confirming can define the scope and enable an entity to perception and cognition by people; the praising and blaming can value evaluation of something. Based on the cognition and judgment of things, we can regulate and control them with the concrete ways of fames and positions, investigating checking and laws. The identifying and confirming is the basic usage of Ming, the rest four usages must be based on the first.Appointing a position according to his or her ability and matching words with deeds, in fact, which referred to in Han fei-zi is a learning that distinguishes between categories. However, attaching too much importance to it caused the instability of the rule of law and also a danger to the monarch himself. As a result, after Han dynasty, there is a enhanced content of the ritual on the basis of Ming in Han fei-zi, which set up the social culture and political structure to maintain the Chinese traditional culture of two thousand years,which with Titulus and Righteousness as the ethical supporting, with content,name,investigation and checking as the political core.