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    The Han emperor should allow regional differences rather ... — Carmelics
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    The Han emperor should allow regional differences rather than attempting to eliminate them or impose uniform norms

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    • 1.Unifying people while allowing for their differences is more effective than attempting to eliminate those differences or impose norms
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    • 2.The Huainanzi was composed to instruct Emperor Wu in the proper ways to maintain the empire
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    • 1.Political unity requires common norms of justice and obligation that transcend regional custom, as Xunzi argued that ritual li must be universal to order society.
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    • 2.Where regional differences include practices that violate fundamental ethical standards, tolerating them privileges local tradition over moral truth.
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    • 3.The Legalist reforms of Shang Yang demonstrated that uniform law, not accommodation of difference, produced the state strength that made Han empire possible.
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    • 1.The Huainanzi's counsel reflects the political interests of Liu An, a regional king threatened by centralization, not disinterested philosophical wisdom.
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    • 2.Arguments for tolerating regional diversity advanced by those who benefit from weak central authority carry an inherent legitimacy deficit that undermines their prescriptive force.
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    Ostensibly the purpose of this, according to Liu An, was to instruct his nephew, Emperor Wu of Han, in the proper ways to maintain the empire, unifying the people while allowing for their differences, which would prove much more effective than attempting to eliminate these differences or impose norms. There was likely another more personal purpose behind the text as well. In the mid to late second century BCE, the central Han government began moving away from an older model of imperial control i
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