| Titre | Quelques aspects de la rectification des noms dans la pensée et la pratique politiques de la Chine ancienne | |
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| Auteur | Jean Levi | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | no 15, 1993 Le juste nom | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | I. Rectification des noms, action politique |
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| Page | 23-53 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Aspects of the rectification of names in Ancient China political thought and practice
The Legalist thinkers, rejecting in the name of reality the sophisms of the Nominalist school - a feat which the Confucianists could not achieve - gave zheng ming a new and refined form, the xing/ming, no more the mere art of correct naming but an evaluation of behaviours (with the correlative sanctions) as a political instrument. Thus was born a new art of denominations -of which only the sovereign could misuse in order to expose flatterers - radically opposed to Confucian ethics. But Han Fei's theories were just too candidly displayed to succeed as an official teaching. Never call a spade a spade. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_1993_num_15_15_973 |
