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Jiang's Chinese name for the conscious universe's plan or will arranging events through human participation.
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mandate of heaven
Jiang's Chinese name for the conscious universe's plan or will arranging events through human participation.
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Glossary
Jiang's phrase for a divine social order in which gods authorize kings and humans obey as if hierarchy were natural.
model
Jiang equates the universe's plan with mandate of heaven: events happen because the conscious universe has intention and design, and human beings participate in that design.
definition
The mandate of heaven, in this lecture, means a divine hierarchy where gods control kings and kings direct humans, making obedience appear to be the natural order.
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"...plan, okay? And in China, we call this what? The mandate of heaven, right? The mandate of heaven. It's the will of the gods..."
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"...happen the way they do? Well, in China, we say mandate of heaven, because it is God's will, right? Okay? How can we explain..."
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"...Okay? So this is the divine order. This is the mandate of heaven. Okay. And as you will see, this is not just true..."
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"...Okay? This is just the natural order. This is the mandate of heaven. This is the way that it should be. Okay. Now let's..."
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"...in Chinese history, right? Dynasties rise because they have the mandate of heaven. Heaven favors them. And then they rise because they have the..."
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"...of corruption, because there's a bad emperor, they lose the mandate of heaven, which allows a rebellion, which then creates a new dynasty. So..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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