Title: Moral and Tao in the View of Fatality in Early Zhou Dynasty to Spring and Autumn Periods
Abstract: Unlike their subjective and superstitious predecessors of Shang Dynasty,philosophers of Zhou Dynasty were objective and rational in their way of looking at heaven and pursuing fatality,as was reflected from their understanding of the fatality by focusing on the management of state affairs.The rulers of the early Zhou Dynasty advocated to govern the country by moral, or virtue,believing that there was virtue in fatality;while in the Spring and Autumn period,with its tremendous social upheavals,people doubted the relationship between moral and fatality,and then put forward Tao,the Way of Nature.As political struggles were won by whoever had the greatest power rather than those who conformed to Tao,there was in the Spring and Autumn Period a shift from the pursuit of fatality to the concern for social realities.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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