Studies On The Thought About Names And Argumentation In Hanfei-zi

The research of Han fei-zi has not ceased since the advent of book Han fei-zi, but these studies are more focused on its literary, or historical issues. Because Hanfei is the representative figure of legalist, So his legalists is also the focus of academic research. By contrast, the study of debate thought about the Han fei-zi is less.The western logical thought is introduced into China with the east-west cultural exchange and development since modern time. When Chinese scholars accept western logical thought, they also discover the logic of China’s ancient philosophers. In such a background, the debate thought of t he School of Names, Mohism, Xunzi, who are Chinese ancient sages have been obtained the research and summary. About the debate thought of Ha nfei, academia is controversial, some people think that Hanfei’s contribution to the Chinese theory of n ames and arg umentation confined to its proposed the law of contradiction, its logical theory obviously inadequate. Than, Compared with the Sc hool of Names, Mohism and Xunzi, Hanfei’s theory of logic is insufficient, but with the deepening of the research of Han fei-zi, we can find that the forensics research of Hanfei has a unique analysis and application about Name, Ci, Saying and Debate.Based on the Han fei-zi as the research object, this paper research the forensics of Han fei from the Name, Ci, Saying, Debate, etc. As a representative of legalism, Hanfei was not only set to legalism, and also absorbed pre-qin dynasty thoughts and ideas about name forensics, his purpose is to find a strategies about consolidating ruling and peacing the world for The Monarch. This article first statements The Thought of Form and Name in Han fei-zi; Secondly, this paper is to analyze and categorize the "Yan" of Han fei-zi, focus on combing its use in forensics of sense of language. Hanfei attaches great importance to the role of Yan, he thinks the Yan which belongs to the law could prevent the formation of apology speech, and it is an important basis of studying Subjects, also is a basis of the Monarch maintaining their rule, settling the foundation. Then, this paper analyze the Han fei-zi in a persuasive thoughts, Hanfei thought the debates about contemporary criticism(both logical argumentation and vertical and horizontal sophisticated) are useless. But it was not Hanfei ideal society, no "Democratic", and the Legalist School Thought was not got attention. There was so many kinds idea of political thought. In order to promote his own thoughts, Hanfei also had to use the weapon of debate, participate in the debates. In the process, Hanfei founded the Renju inference method, and repeatedly used Dilemma, Reasonable analysis method. In particular, he proposed "the paradox", is thought to make the greatest contribution for Chinese logic.At the end the article compares the forensics ideas of Hanfei with Confucius, Mohism and Xunzi, points out its contribution to the Chinese name forensics, and analyzes its ideas of deficiencies and what cause of these deficiencies.