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PHILOSOPHY
OF PEACE IN CHINA A Study
of the Huainanzi Ch. 15 On Military
Strategy 漢代和平哲學 : 淮南子兵略訓研究 Edmund
Ryden Variétés Sinologiques no. 88 © Taipei Ricci Institute, 1998 181 pages / 15.5 x 22 cm / hard cover Language : English- Chinese ISBN 957-9185-59-X USD 12 / Euro 14 / NT 200 |
PHILOSOPHY
OF PEACE IN CHINA A Study of the Huainanzi Ch. 15 On Military Strategy 漢代和平哲學 : 淮南子兵略訓研究 This monograph is a study and translation into English of Chapter XV
of the Huainanzi, On Military Strategy. There is also included a translation
of the Letter of Liu An, Prince of Huainan, to the Emperor regarding war on
China’s border region of Min-Yue. On Military Strategy provides a
comprehensive summary of Warring States military literature. Hence through
this one window we may obtain a complete grasp of ancient Chinese philosophy
of war and peace. Aside from the study of the text itself and its relationship to pre-Qin
military literature, the monograph undertakes a comparison with modern
Western philosophies of peace. It emerges that both Chinese and Western
sources advocate that the legitimate use of the army is to remove evil and
prevent tyranny. Under certain conditions it is permissible to intervene in
the affairs of another state. The norms governing such military intervention
set out by On Military Strategy have much in common with those that govern
the use of military force by the United Nations today. Since force is
permitted we are not here dealing with a pacificist philosophy but rather
with a philosophy of peace which is of immense value today. |
