Re: China: Mandate of heaven?

On May 25, 1:31=A0am, Jim Walsh <jimNOwalsSPA...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2008 22:10:30 +0800, Albert K. Fung wrote
> (in article <g16ji3$122...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
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> > The Con****ian doctrine ....
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> > Is, principally, a moral justification for rebellion against the
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> > power. As such, it is a Con****ian blessing for the insurgency and not
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> > embellishment of the ruler.
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> Agree. As I have often said, in the context of his time, Con****ius was a
> democrat.


You mean Con****ius was a hypocrite.