荀子是先秦思想的集大成者,对先秦诸子的思想有批判也有继承。他虽是先秦时期最后的儒家,但他对法家思想的继承亦为明显。他礼法思想中的大部分内容被其弟子韩非和李斯所继承,后者并在秦国进行了实践,而秦朝建立的专制主义中央集权制度垂两千年不改,其理论基础与荀子思想密不可分。 Xunzi is a master of pre-Qin thoughts, criticizing and inheriting the thought of pre-Qin philosophers. Although he was the last Confucianist in the pre-Qin period, his inheritance of the Fa-rectification was also evident. Most of his etiquette thought was inherited by his disciples Han Fei and Lisi, who practiced in Qin State. However, the absolutist centralism established by the Qin dynasty did not change for two thousand years, and its theoretical basis and Xunzi’s thought Inseparable.