Legalists believe that the national society and organizational system should be constantly developing and changing, and with the progress of the times, the political system and organizational structure must also change and adjust accordingly. At that time, legalists called this process' political reform'.
Only in this way can we achieve the goal of making Qiang Bing a rich country. Sticking to the old rules and ignoring the importance of political reform that keeps pace with the times will only make the organization gradually aging and eventually disappear.
For example, in the period of Qin Xiaogong, Shang Yang's cultivators had their fields and their methods of using soldiers, which was very popular in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and was most adopted by Qin State and Qin Dynasty.
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The theory of Legalism is a purely utilitarian materialistic ideology, and its core is mainly about how to strengthen the rule of the monarch, emphasize the art of punishment, and take the right of loyalty to the monarch as a refuge.
On this basis, Legalists denied the hierarchical system inherited by hereditary nobles, and believed that "saints can strengthen the country, and those who violate the law benefit the people and do not obey their rituals."
Legalists in political practice, such as Qin encouraged farming to strengthen agriculture and combat power, destroyed poems and books to fool the people, opposed monarchy and pursued the policy of ignorance, and Qin Shihuang burned books to bury Confucianism to unify people's thoughts. I totally hope to break with traditional culture and advocate the rule of law.
Han Fei, a figure in the Warring States period, is a master of legalist thought. He summed up various theories of the Legalists and absorbed them from the Confucian theory of Xunzi. He believes that human nature is evil, not only for ordinary people, but also for the relationship between parents and children.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Legalist School