the_mandate_of_heaven
Subject:
World History [1]
Tags:
religion [2]
Chinese culture [3]
Asia [5]
confucianism [6]
Heaven [8]
Tian [10]
Mandate of Heaven [11]
Shi [12]
De [13]
The Mandate of Heaven,?Selections from the Shu Jing (The Classic of History) (6th Cent. BCE) ? from James Legge, trans, The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, in F. Max Mueller, ed., The Sacred Books of the East, 50 vols., (Oxford: Clarendon, 1879-1910), Vol 3. pp. 92-95, repr. in Alfred J. Andrea and James H. Overfield, The Human Record: Sources of Global History, Vol 1, 2d. ed., (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994), pp. 25-27