试论慎子的学术思想

On the Academic Thoughts of Shenzi

慎子是战国中期稷下学宫的代表人物之一。其思想主要体现在《慎子》①一书中。由于资料缺乏,慎子的思想学术派别历来说法不一。②本文以为:慎子将道家"道法自然"的思想加以演化并与其"尊君"、"尚法"、"贵势"、重"术"的学术理论很好地融合在了一起,但法家思想是其学术思想的重点与核心,他是战国中期由学说林立走向学术融合的重要代表性人物。

Shenzi was an important character in the middle period of Warring States when various thoughts merged together.Shenzi,whose academic thoughts mainly reflected in his famous works Shenzi,was one of the representatives of the study palace of Jixia in Warring States.Due to the want of research resources,however,there is no agreement among scholars on which school does the thoughts of shenzi belong to.This paper holds that the academic thoughts of Shenzi has evolved from Daoism＇ regarding itself as the method,and merged Taoism well with its own academic theory of loyalty to the emperor,reverence to the law and regard political trickery but the keystone and the kernel of the academic thoughts of Shenzi is legalist theory and Shenzi was an important character in the middle period of Warring States when various thoughts merged together.