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Heaven Help Those who Have Virtue——The Origin of Political Philosophy in Chinese Traditional Ethics

YU Shu-gui

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Seeking the morality as basis for his sovereignty zhou Gong(Ouke of Zhou)proposed that heaven help those who have virtue. This proposition entails a dynamic relation in which heaven sovereignty and common people interact on each other. It was contended by a hundred schools of thought from period of spring and Autumn to period of Warring States and finally evolved to political philosophy in Chinese traditional ethics under the transformation of thinkers on early Han Dynasty as well as Dong Zhongshu.

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Seeking the morality as basis for his sovereignty zhou Gong(Ouke of Zhou)proposed that heaven help those who have virtue. This proposition entails a dynamic relation in which heaven sovereignty and common people interact on each other. It was contended by a hundred schools of thought from period of spring and Autumn to period of Warring States and finally evolved to political philosophy in Chinese traditional ethics under the transformation of thinkers on early Han Dynasty as well as Dong Zhongshu.

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Seeking the morality as basis for his sovereignty zhou Gong(Ouke of Zhou)proposed that heaven help those who have virtue. This proposition entails a dynamic relation in which heaven sovereignty and common people interact on each other. It was contended by a hundred schools of thought from period of spring and Autumn to period of Warring States and finally evolved to political philosophy in Chinese traditional ethics under the transformation of thinkers on early Han Dynasty as well as Dong Zhongshu.

Key concepts: Heaven, Sovereignty, Virtue, Chinese philosophy, Spring and Autumn period, Morality, Proposition, Politics

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