Shang Yang (Lord Shang)#Shang
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#Shang
Shang Yang (Lord Shang) · c. 390–338 BCE
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“He built the legal machine that would one day unify China — and the machine, following his own laws to the letter, destroyed him.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“People respond to rewards and punishments, not to sermons — so a strong state is built not on virtue but on clear, ruthless, absolutely uniform law.”
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