Fan Li

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Fan Li

Fan Li ( Chinese  范蠡 , Pinyin Fàn Lǐ , W.-G. Fan Li ), also Shaobo (少 伯), lived around 500 BC. He was a politician and thinker from Wan (now Nanyang , Henan ) during the spring and autumn annals of ancient China history. He was an advisor to the Yue government .

Life

Together with his ruler, King Goujian , he spent three years as a prisoner in Wu State after Yue lost the war between these states. Upon his return from captivity, Goujian implemented reforms that enabled Yue to take revenge on Wu. After the victory, Fan Li changed his name to Tao Zhugong (Chinese 陶朱公, Pinyin: Táo Zhūgōng) and started his own business, where he achieved success and became a wealthy man.

In philosophy, Fan Li negated the idea of Heaven's mandate . He maintained that nature in its movement and development has its own law that must be followed by man, otherwise things harmful to man would occur. When ruling a state, the ruler should also take advantage of the changing conditions and circumstances.

Fan Li and Xi Shi

Legend has it that after the fall of Wu, Fan Li resigned from his ministerial post and went with the legendary beauty Xi Shi on a fishing boat out into the fog of Lake Tai Hu , after which no one had ever seen her again.

See also

literature

  • 汉英 中国 哲学 辞典. 开封 2002
  • Zhongguo wushenlun shi ( 中国 无神论 史 , Zhōngguó wúshénlùn shǐ ) in: Dangdai Zhongguo xuezhe daibiaozuo wenku 当代 中国 学者 代表作 文库 . Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe 中国 社会 科学 出版社, 2011, ISBN 978-7-5004-0756-0 (2 vols.)
  • Paul A. Cohen: Speaking to History, the Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China . University of California Press, Berkeley 2009, ISBN 978-0-520-25579-1 . Digitized
  • Dominik Declercq: Writing Against the State: Political Rhetorics in Third and Fourth Century China. Leiden: Brill, 1998. (= Sinica Leidensia XXXIX) (with a compilation of different traditions regarding Fan Li)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article: "Fan Li", in: Han-Ying Zhongguo zhexue cidian. Kaifeng 2002, p. 428.
  2. ↑ Based on the Yuejue shu越 绝 书, written by Yuan Kang .
personal data
SURNAME Fan, Li
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 范蠡; Tao, Zhugong
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese politician and thinker during the spring and autumn annals season
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.