The legalists were insane, the daoists are insane in a good way, it's a shame mohism lost out to confucionism. The CCP is losing the mandate of heaven.

@digory IMO Daoists were insane in a bad way, and the legalists weren't insane. Interesting the West had ancient legalist policy, but (as far as I know) no legalist political philosophers until Hobbes.

https://eharding.substack.com/p/review-of-the-dao-de-jing-by-lao

@EnopoletusHarding Does this count as legalist philosophy?

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%208%3A2-17&version=NIV

@TheAllMemeingEye I don't think so; that is advice for the subject, not the ruler.

@EnopoletusHarding what about this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince

@TheAllMemeingEye That's not legalism, that's just ways to improve a ruler's self-interest.

Does the intro paragraphs of a few wikipedia articles and a couple of short youtube video essays count?

@TheAllMemeingEye No it doesn't.