By 'n' by hard times comes a-knocking at the door ! (48)

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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