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Originally Posted by Deltacamelately
What is the ethinicity of the people of Taiwan?
If its Han, then is there a difference in the concept of "Legality" in context of the ROC and PRC?
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Not to surprise you, Taiwan keeps more Chinese traditional culture than Mainland. CCP tried to replace Chinese traditional culture with Communism. The Culture Revolution almost destroyed our Confucianism tradition. More serious problem is no Confucianism has been taught in our elementary and high schools since 1949.
Legalism was not the predominant philosophy in China. Confucianism was. It’s not easy to explain clearly the relation with Legalism and Confucianism and I really don’t want to get into this topic in depth. Thousands of scholars, Chinese, Japanese and westerners, have too many books and articles in this regard. One idea is the Confucianism sets up the basic value system of a society and Legalism is just the “method” (术) to be used to realize the values set up by Confucianism.
Ray，the background of the point ”the government knows the best” is a little bit complicate. Firstly, it is Confucianism not Legalism justified the “rule of emperor”. The government in ancient China is supposed to check and balance the power of emperor. Legalism was used to justify the legitimacy of the government and provided useful methods to help the government fulfill its duties more efficiently and correctly. Secondly, ancient Chinese scholars insisted to have an elite government and strongly against the intervention and privileges of royalty families and those eupatrids. This is one reason why they insisted that “the government knows the best”. This point was somehow used to make sure only qualified scholars may be the officials of the government and kick those eupatrids out.