THE HUMANITY IN LE THANH TONG’S THOUGHTS OF STATE AND LAW

Abstract

Le Thanh Tong (1442-1497) was not only a great culturalist and poet, but also an outstanding thinker and politician. He has left to the next generation a valuable legacy of thoughts, including thoughts of state and law. Le Thanh Tong’s thoughts of state and law are not only show characteristics such as inheritance, practicality, nationality, but also prominent and throughout in the profound humanity, expressed in the viewpoint of promoting the role of the people, loving the people, paying attention to the lives of the people, especially the hard-working and inferior people in society, and great benevolence, tolerance