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The reputation of Legalism suffered from its association with the former Qin dynasty.
Confucian principles have also been blended with the doctrines of Legalism and Mohism to influence managerial practice.
The tendency toward Legalism is apparent in intellectual circles toward the end of the Han dynasty, and would be reinforced by Cao Wei.
Legalism arose in Republican Rome and remained the predominant legal order in the last centuries of the Republic and the early Principate.
Legalism and Mohism are distinguished by this effort to obtain objectivity.
The doctrine of Legalism that guided the Qin emphasized strict adherence to a legal code and the absolute power of the emperor.
He is often considered to be the greatest representative of Chinese Legalism, his work Han Feizi consisting of the combination of the core Legalist principles.
These concerns for purity should not be understood as pettifogging legalism.
And none of these ancient writers has seemed to me to lead to any sort of legalism.
What it amounts to is the idea of moral legalism, that one should outlaw all wrongdoing.
The history of the Church, Coughlin notes, displays periods of both legalism and antinomianism.
As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
They are brutal and remorseless killers, undeserving of the legalism of international conventions, the U.S. government argues.
A commitment to legalism can never substitute for a commitment to the ideals law distortedly symbolizes.
I think we get into law and legalism, and we don't understand that it's really, really human to err.
Its political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty.
Less often considered is whether this ascendant legalism is good or bad for global prosperity and stability.
On nonproliferation, India believes that the vacuous legalism of the current nonproliferation regime will lead the world nowhere.
It would be better if the excesses of legalism were rolled back, so that Americans feel readier to impeach the next perjurious president.
Thus the pre-conciliar legalism reappears in a post-conciliar form.
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Legalism replaces the direct action of strikes or other challenges to the rule of capital.
The struggle with legalism was now over and past, at least in its critical phase.
If legalism gets its answer in the character of the restoration, antinomianism gets its answer in the effect thereof.
When taken together, they furnish a triumphant answer to the legalism and antinomianism of the human heart.
It established legalism over justice, so a known, convicted murderer could spend up to 10 years in the court system before being executed.
The tendency of legalism to externalise life has another aspect.
This project involved four studies considering the conceptualization and measurement of grace and legalism orientations.
Was it by stumbling up the ladder of self-righteousness and legalism?
But the case of Prince Michael, as it happened, was complicated by legalism as well as lawlessness.
Those who resort to legalism, he has said, ensure their own condemnation.
In the view of legalism, this is the natural outcome of Pauline teaching.
This was the condition to which legalism would reduce the Galatians.
It is also easy to discern how legalism helped to create and sustain the current crisis in terms of episcopal decisions over the last decade.
In those circumstances, a story of radical forgiveness was a useful antidote to the prevailing legalism.
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