Concept
Imperial examination
Overview
system used in appointing officials in dynastic China
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After a severe struggle, the 470, in 1319, succeeded in making their office hereditary, and thus converted what had previously been a democracy into one of the most rigid forms of aristocracy. The evils of the system soon developed themselves. The 470, now hereditary nobles, became as jealous of each other as they had formerly been of the people, and while appropriating all the great offices of the state, had…
William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's play of the Merchant of Venice
Close in meaning to Imperial examination; the term itself is not named.
A fourth method is for every person to deliberate upon every subject in public assembly, where the magistrates can determine nothing of themselves, and have only the privilege of giving their opinions first; and this is the method of the most pure democracy, which is analogous to the proceedings in a dynastic oligarchy and a tyrannic monarchy.
Aristotle, Politics
Close in meaning to Imperial examination; the term itself is not named.
As might be expected, we find that, having a common origin and like general functions, these several controlling agencies act during each era with similar degrees of vigour. Under the Chinese despotism, stringent and multitudinous in its edicts and harsh in the enforcement of them, and associated with which there is an equally stern domestic despotism exercised by the eldest surviving male of the family, there…
Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress
Close in meaning to Imperial examination; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Imperial examination
Related ideas
- Liang Qichao
- French Revolution
- Germany
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Great Britain
- Heian period
- Japan
- Jesuits
- Edo period
- Luoyang
- Korea
- Kuomintang
- Dong Zhongshu
- Latin
- Adam Smith
- Beijing
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- United States House of Representatives
- Mao Zedong
- Muslims
- Baron d'Holbach
- Yuan dynasty
- Vietnam
- Christian Wolff (philosopher)
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Chinese philosophy.