Abstract
In this chapter I will discuss Chinese legalism. I will summarize and analyze the origin of Chinese legalism, its major propositions and its characteristics. This chapter compares the difference between Chinese legalism and other Chinese philosophies including Confucianism, Taoism and Mohism. It also discloses the difference between Chinese legalism and Western legalism in their concerns with morality. Western legalism defended the Rule-of-Law but argued against the morality of law. In contrast, Chinese legalism, especially in the early Pre-Qin era, did not separate morality from law. However, the fidelity to law in Chinese legalism was interpreted as the fidelity to the monarch, and was thus different from the Western Rule-of-Law.
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