Political Strategies for Maintaining Power: Power and Nature in Chapter 20 of the Chunqiu fanlu

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• Autor: Ivana Buljan
• Autorova ustanova: Sveučilište u Zagrebu; Filozofski fakultet; (Odsjek za indologiju i dalekoistočne studije)
• Znanstveno / umjetničko područje, polje i grana: HUMANISTIČKE ZNANOSTI; Filologija; Sinologija
• Znanstveno / umjetničko područje, polje i grana: HUMANISTIČKE ZNANOSTI; Filozofija; Filozofija drugih kulturnih krugova

Sažetak (engleski)

‘Bao wei quan’ 保位權 (‘Preservation of position and power’) (hereinafter: BWQ) is an essay advising rulers on how to preserve their position of power and maintain control over the bureaucracy. It is a part of one of the most authoritative premodern Chinese texts, the Chunqiu fanlu 春秋繁露 (The Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals), which is traditionally ascribed to pivotal Han dynasty scholar Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒 (c. 195–115 BCE). This paper argues that the BWQ establishes a type of naturalistic approach to rulership. In this vision, the state and its social and political order is rooted in the constitution of human nature, and is perceived as a place where human tendencies can be followed and fulfilled, but also controlled. In addition, the BWQ’s political discourse and its view of government is built around complementary processes, such as reward/punishment, political power/moral power, non-action/action, actuality/fam etc. The art of rulership thus consists of keeping these opposites in balance.

• Ključne riječi (engleski): Power; rulership; Chunqiu fanlu; manipulation; desires; wu wei; Han Feizi; ziran; bureaucracy
• Jezik: engleski
• Vrsta publikacije: Znanstveni rad - Izvorni znanstveni rad
• Status objave: Objavljen
• Vrsta recenzije: Recenziran - međunarodna recenzija
• Verzija publikacije: Završna verzija rukopisa prihvaćena za objavljivanje (postprint)
• Naslov časopisa: Asian Philosophy
• Brojčani podaci: vol. 29, br. 4, str. 289-305
• p-ISSN: 0955-2367
• e-ISSN: 1469-2961
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09552367.2019.1701062
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:414992
• Datum objave publikacije: 2019-12-19
• URL dokumenta: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09552367.2019.1701062
• Vrsta resursa: Tekst
• Prava pristupa: Otvoreni pristup; Datum isteka embarga: 2021-06-19
• Datum i vrijeme pohrane: 2020-07-23 12:37:17