上帝創造宇宙萬物,賦予萬物,大至星體小至微塵,萬有引力,不用介入宇宙的運作,而整個宇宙的運行,秩序井然。
天何言哉 ? 四時行焉,百物生焉,天何言哉 !(論語陽貨)
Does Heaven speak ? The four seasons pursue their courses, and all things are continually being produced, Does Heaven speak !( Confucian Analects, English translation by James Legge, D. D., LL. D., Ch. XVII )
孔子發現萬有引力 ?
上帝賦與人類理性,不用涉入人類事務,人人依據天賦理性而自律自治,每個人得以自主,並完成其終極目的。
乃謂 : 天命之謂性,率性之謂道,修道之謂教。(中庸第一章論)
What Heaven has conferred is called Nature ; an accordance with this Nature is called the path of duty; the regulation of this path is called instruction. (The doctrine of the mean, English translation by James Legge, D. D., LL. D., Ch. I )
啟發理性,自發行為法則,以完成個人的終極目的,這是天命,也就是道。
故,
子曰 : 君子謀道不謀食。耕也,餒在其中也 ; 學也,祿在其中矣。君子憂道,不憂食。(論語衛靈公)
The Master said :
"The object of the superior man is truth. Food is not his object. There is ploughing ; ---even in that there is sometimes want. So with learning ; ----emolument may be found in it. The superior man is anxious lest he should not get truth."
( Confucian Analects, English translation by James Legge, D. D., LL. D., Ch. XV )
孔子師承堯舜的尊天法天,故而,此天命此道依於理性,而不法武王伐紂的天命說。
孔子這個樸素的自然神論,目標指向"個人目的自主"的"大同世界"----- My old Kentucky home !?
(取材自Alex Pan's Digest)
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