Post-Western International Relations Reconsidered: The Pre-Modern Politics of Gongsun Long pp 85-94 | Cite as
Peace
Abstract
Gongsun’s approach to peace was to check on the peace rhetoric against the actual military preparation for conquest. He pointed out that universal love was not an abstract concept to be exemplified through periodical ritual. The way to bring the Kings to the consciousness is twofold. First, Gongsun deconstructed the false reality that covered by the Kings’ ritualized rhetoric of appeasement. Secondly, he could opt to show the Kings that there was a different reality in someone else’ perspective. He compelled the kings to face their own warring minds. Gongsun placed the pressure on the kings, rather than their military preparation.
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