The Limits of Coercion: Rewards and Punishments in Early Chinese Military Thought
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/JA.308.1.3287671" target="_blank" >10.2143/JA.308.1.3287671</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Limits of Coercion: Rewards and Punishments in Early Chinese Military Thought
Original language description
The present article analyses conceptions of self-interest and motivation as reflected in precepts about rewards and punishments Han Fei's ʺtwo leversʺ of power which are discussed in military writings of the pre-Qin to Han periods (ca. 3rd c. BCE- 2nd c. CE). On a fundamental level, military theorists grappled with the problem of how to establish control and exert power over defiant subjects, like the Legalist works Han Fei zi and Shang jun shu. Whereas the Legalist philosophers proposed exclusively to exploit people's self-interest, manipulating them through the ʺtwo leversʺ, some military theorists espoused a more nuanced understanding of motivation. They acknowledged the significance of non-selfish obligations and emotional bonds in both horizontal and vertical relationships, and in doing so considered the wider social nexus of military activity. Historiographic records indicate furthermore that commanders employed certain performative strategies suggested by military writers in order to build rapport with their troops. Surprisingly, then, a more complex notion of human nature took shape within the confines of military specialism than in the political philosophy of the Legalists.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal Asiatique
ISSN
0021-762X
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Volume of the periodical
308
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
BE - BELGIUM
Number of pages
34
Pages from-to
85-118
UT code for WoS article
000561862100004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85093856162