The thought of Han Fei has been strongly associated with totalitarianism. It has never had any positive association with freedom. Although Han Fei Cannot be qualified as a liberal in the modern sense, the core of this thought bears important insight on building a liberal society. The core of Han Fei’s thought can be called “practicalism”. The major means of ruling which are up held by the legalist such as law, political tactics, and power form political system are derived from praticalism. Therefore, such ruling means have no concrete content. Their specifications are to be determined by circumstances and object reasoning. In Han Fei’s words, “only when laws change with the time could the country be ruled, ruling that fits the era yields desirable effects”. Therefore, law is not meant to be harsh, it just has to adjust to the brut fact in order to deliver a beneficent society. The key is not to be swayed by any theory that does not yield actual effect. It does not matter how dominant a theory is or how much has been accomplished through the theory. As long as it hinders the development of a beneficent society, it has to be abandoned. Since the serial fall of the socialist regime of Eastern Europe during the latter part of 1989, liberalism of the western society become the dominant trend of socio-political development of the world. Although a lot has been established in the name of liberalism during the cold war period, liberalism is detrimentally taking away people’s freedom of everday life at this particular stage of its development. According to Han Fei, liberalism at its present form has to be changed. Only then, can a beneficent society where people are truly free be established.