The Book of Lord Shang: A Classic of the Chinese School of Law; Translated from the Chinese with Introduction and Notes

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A. Probsthain, 1928 - 346 עמודים
"This book gives a complete translation of the work known in Chinese as Shang-chun-shu".
 

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עמוד 246 - Now the general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many 'calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.
עמוד 115 - Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this.
עמוד 51 - Ch. xvi. sumers, and that if it were too low, it would hurt the farmers. If the consumers were hurt, the people would emigrate, and if the farmers were hurt, the state would be poor. The bad results of a high price and a low price are the same. Therefore, a good statesman would keep the people from injury and give more encouragement to the farmers.
עמוד 294 - Here are a small basket of rice and a platter of soup, and the case is one in which the getting them will preserve life, and the want of them will be death; - if they are offered with an insulting voice, even a tramper will not receive them, or if you first tread upon them, even a beggar will not stoop to take them.
עמוד 274 - PARAGRAPH 17 REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS The way in which a sage administers a state is by unifying rewards, unifying punishments, and unifying education. The effect of unifying rewards is that the army will have no equal ; the effect of unifying punishments is that orders will be carried out ; the effect of unifying education is that inferiors will obey superiors. Now if one understands rewards, 1 Should be four.
עמוד 258 - All penalties must be made clear to the people. If they are clear, there will be great control ; or else, there will be six parasites. A good ruler punishes those who infringe the laws but does not reward those who obey them. If penalties are heavy, rank becomes the more valuable ; if rewards...
עמוד 278 - What I mean by the unification of punishments is that punishments should know no degree or grade, but that from ministers of state and generals down to great officers and ordinary folk, whosoever does...
עמוד 120 - Therefore is an intelligent ruler cautious with regard to laws and regulations; he does not hearken to words which are not in accordance with the law; he does not exalt actions which are not in accordance with the law; he does not perform deeds which are not in accordance with the law.
עמוד 106 - The former kings hated this confusion; hence they established the rules of proper conduct (li) and justice (i) in order to set limits to this confusion, to educate and nourish men's desires, to give opportunity for this seeking for satisfaction, in order that desire should never be exhausted by things, nor should things be curbed by desire ; that these two should support each other and develop. This is whence the rules of proper conduct (li) arise.
עמוד 104 - ... promoted what was profitable and removed what was harmful; they regulated the people's idea of virtue and the people took them as their masters. . . . When superiors and inferiors had been established, the people formed an organization, and the state was founded.

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