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Warring States Legalist-Daoist Philosopher and Theorist of Political Authority (Shi)
A thatched pavilion open on three sides stands among tall bamboo; one person sits with their back turned at the veranda rail beside a zither and a stack of bamboo slips, while a stone path runs to a calm pond reflecting clouds and distant hills.
Also known as Shenzi · Fajia Zhongshi Pai Daibiao · Jixia Xiansheng
Warring States philosopher at the Jixia Academy who synthesized Daoist natural order with Legalist statecraft, formulating the essential doctrine of political authority and situational power (Shi).
ZhouShen Dao was a man of Zhao. The Records of the Grand Historian says that he, together with Tian Pian, Jie Zi and Huan Yuan, studied the Huang-Lao way and virtue and set out its meaning, and that Shen Dao wrote twelve treatises. It adds that Shen Dao, Huan Yuan, Jie Zi, Tian Pian, Zou Shi and others each wrote books on order and disorder in government.