Contrasting Confucism and Han Fei-tsu, along with the Greeks.

I think Confucius thinks that in a good government the people are
pretty much one with the government, but still are somewhat scared of the government. Actually, not so much scared but more as in reflective, as in things would be done on how well the government itself did things. Since there is trust in the government and the government’s decisions, any rules that are set, according to what I understood from Confucius, will be rules that are followed since it’s thought that things are done in the best interest of the people, not of the leader. I also got that the Confucius ideals on government believe that all people deserve the same rights and the same opportunities to get ahead. Meaning, that everybody earns the amount that is needed by him or her, so everybody can afford to get what is needed. In other words, a level of opportunity and need is provided so that equality can exist, therefore simultaneously getting rid of injustice. I think that his ideology could have been somewhat of the basis of what the communist ideals represent and aim towards.

Confucius-ism strongly believed that in a government, the military was one of the least important things out of three main things. In Han Fei-tsu’s and the Greek’s case, the military though of as something very important as it provided safety. To the Greeks, it was particularly important because and safety provided with the ability to think freely and express oneself, which is usually a positive thing. While on the other hand, Han Fei-tsu agreed with it being important not only because it created safety, but because it could also produce fear and fear was believed to be the most successful method on keeping people from making ‘mistakes.’ On top of that, Han Fei-tsu believed that the citizens should be highly controlled, not giving option of free opinion. In other words, he did not believe that the people should have a say about what the government is doing, since ‘government knows best’. The Greeks thought that military was the very important, but also believed that the people governed should have a say on how their lives are to be lived.