A Reflection on the Confucian’s Conception of Heaven and Man from Perspective of Political Philosophy

To comprehend the universal inevitability is the nature of human-being. Heaven is the highest existence that ancient Chinese thinker had recognized. Understanding the relation between heaven and man is the basic approach by which they handle the universal inevitability. The idea of union of heaven and man(天人合一) held by the School of Zisi-Mencius (思孟学派)pays much attention to the oneness of heaven and man, which expressed the mental tropism of the ancient thinker to comprehend the objective world at a more Abstract level. The idealists of Confucian School in Song Dynasty understood the heaven by way of metaphysics, and made the inevitable heaven, perceivable heaven and supernal heaven separated. Accordingly, the Confucian’s conception of heaven and man arrived at the highest condition.