TY - CHAP
T1 - Classical Confucianism, punitive expeditions, and humanitarian intervention
AU - Twiss, Sumner B.
AU - Chan, Jonathan K.L.
N1 - Publisher copyright:
© 2015 selection and editorial material, Ping-cheung Lo and Sumner B. Twiss; individual chapters, the contributors
PY - 2015/5/15
Y1 - 2015/5/15
N2 - This chapter shows that while the Daodejing (DDJ) is firmly committed to peace and harmony, it also recognizes the need to employ force of arms when there is no other choice. The DDJ contrasts 'military weapons' as 'ominous instruments' to the human world as a 'sacred instrument'. DDJ also known as the Laozi, is an ancient Chinese text about 5,000 characters long, traditionally taken as a representative Daoist classic expressing a distinctive philosophy from the Warring States Period. Wang Fuzhi, a Confucian scholar of the Qing Dynasty, also views the author of the DDJ as the 'forefather of the military treatise' who is 'the teaching guide for all who write on war. Although the DDJ does discuss how to wage war, including various tactics and strategies, it also uses warfare. Since Daoism is quite skeptical about any kind of offensive acts, the warfare the DDJ talks about is defensive war; that is, war for the purpose of self-defense.
AB - This chapter shows that while the Daodejing (DDJ) is firmly committed to peace and harmony, it also recognizes the need to employ force of arms when there is no other choice. The DDJ contrasts 'military weapons' as 'ominous instruments' to the human world as a 'sacred instrument'. DDJ also known as the Laozi, is an ancient Chinese text about 5,000 characters long, traditionally taken as a representative Daoist classic expressing a distinctive philosophy from the Warring States Period. Wang Fuzhi, a Confucian scholar of the Qing Dynasty, also views the author of the DDJ as the 'forefather of the military treatise' who is 'the teaching guide for all who write on war. Although the DDJ does discuss how to wage war, including various tactics and strategies, it also uses warfare. Since Daoism is quite skeptical about any kind of offensive acts, the warfare the DDJ talks about is defensive war; that is, war for the purpose of self-defense.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Chinese-Just-War-Ethics-Origin-Development-and-Dissent/Lo-Twiss/p/book/9781138824355
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960313938&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315740706-8
DO - 10.4324/9781315740706-8
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84960313938
SN - 9781138824355
SN - 9781138729216
T3 - War, Conflict and Ethics
SP - 117
EP - 134
BT - Chinese Just War Ethics
A2 - Lo, Ping-cheung
A2 - Twiss, Sumner B.
PB - Routledge
ER -