The description of human nature in Shang Jun Ji Shu Dee is: human nature, hunger is food, hard work is fast, suffering is pleasure, humiliation is honor, life is profit, and death is name. The people's pursuit of profit is a rude law; Seeking fame, losing sex is common. From the point of view, Legalists' theory of human nature is based on human nature, and Legalists use the characteristics of human nature to regulate human behavior through punishment and reward. The skills of expelling the people written in Shang Jun's book on the people are: if the people are brave, they will be rewarded; If people are afraid, kill them with things they hate. Therefore, it is brave to fear the people and punish them; If you treat people bravely and reward them, you will die. Fear the people, dare to let them die, invincible country is king.
Shang Yang has a profound insight into human nature and thinks that all the purposes of human work are in one word, that is? Lee? . As long as we control the output of profits, we can fully mobilize the people's subjective initiative. ? What do people want, but what are the benefits? In other words, people's desire is endless, and there is only one way to realize it, so people's potential is stimulated. Shang Yang carried out the national policy of agricultural war. The fame and interests of Qin people can only be gained through war and farming. Although businessmen are rich but not expensive, Confucian scholars are famous but unfavorable. Therefore, Qin talents broke out in a powerful fighting capacity, and they could defeat six with one enemy.
Legalists have no basic arguments about the good and evil of human nature. Legalists' theory of human nature is that human nature is good, but legalists tend to be worse. Han Feizi believes that interests are the fundamental reason that drives people to do things, so the key point of governing the country and reassuring the people is to distribute interests well. If the interests are not well distributed, the country will decline. Han Feizi once shouted: It is difficult for Guo Ping to raise Confucianism and chivalry, and it is difficult to use arbitrators. He didn't benefit from what he used, and he didn't benefit from what he used. That's why people who serve are simple, but the world is in chaos because there are more and more scholars.