State and law (The nature of anarchism)

[Justin Schwartz]

Thanks John. I;ll ask my wife (a sometime China scholar) about it when I get 
back to the topic. She studied with Needham, btw.  Right now I am working on 
Marxism and pragmatism. I saw that you were written up in the Guild Notes, 
thanks for all the good workover the years.
>
>A parallel, and perhaps a source of fruitful comparison, might be
>traditional Chinese political theory, which opposes "li"(historically
>contingent mores - customs, etiquette, right action - enforced by shame,
>internalized family/social pressure) to "fa" (positive law, explicit
>detailed published rules enforced by courts, Weberian bureaucratic
>rationality, armed men and the full range of penal sanction). Joseph
>Needham's discussion in the first volume of _Science and civilisation in
>China_ is where I came to understand this to the extent that I do. . . . >
>Justin, if you're writing on the general subject, I'd think this deserves 
>at least a footnote.
>
>john mage

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