天命、道德和民意——从政治正当性看殷周政权转换

殷周政权转换之际天命伦理化,天命观念发生了从"有命在天"到"天命靡常"的转变,"敬德"思想取代了"敬神"思想,"保民"思想在西周初年兴起。这一时期的思想变革展现出了中国古代政权自我确证是道德的思想路径,即天命是善的,生成道德的政权,道德的政权敬德保民,消灭不道德的政权。这有别于西方政治寻求政权被他者证明是道德的思想路径。

Fatality,morality and public opinion---the political legitimacy of the early Zhou Dynasty

In the early Zhou Dynasty,fatality is not constant and good. People did not pay attention to the gods. People did pay attention to the morality. In the early Zhou Dynasty,rulers knew that they should protect the people. In the early Zhou Dynasty,the ancient Chinese rulers did this by themselves to prove that their regime was moral. This is different from Western politics.