RELIGST 2TT3 Lecture 1: Confucian
4 Apr 2018
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Was an adjective, not a two nouns originally mean family in power now becomes noun. Was transcending yourself numbing yourself according to the virtue, according to book no connection between one generation and another just cut it off, complete (cid:523)no. (cid:888)(cid:883)(cid:524) 9/(cid:884)(cid:883) if you can capture it, some temperal, outside of. Hisotrical no single person name, or place name. all historical. Virtue moral force a leader must have to lead ppl. Ppl will not lose their sense of shame. A mandate is sth in power receiving the mending. The heaven is transferring its authority of ancestors to the next generation. Then the person is the next one in power. Heaven: nothing to do with god, only to do with ancestors. Residence where the ancestors exist. (eaven gives me my virtue transfer a authority to him and his virtue. )f a king in power is swifched,t he political scientist would say: he lost the virtue.
