Natural Law and the Chinese Sages
The ancient Chinese idea that "Man has received from heaven a nature innately good, to guide him in all his movements," says MercatorNet's Zac Alstin, "rather neatly parallel the Judeo-Christian perspective in which human beings were created good by God, but have gone awry from the created order through disobedience to God’s will" — It’s only natural.
Labels: Philosophy, The Catholic Faith, The Chosen, The Middle Kingdom
3 Comments:
CS Lewis wrote about this in his book Abolition of Man. A very good read -- he links the Chinese idea of the Tao with the western idea of natural law.
Claes G. Ryn, a leading conservative scholar who has worked to bridge East and West, is worth checking out on this point also.
However, Zac does not seem to understand how Chinese ideograms actually work. He treats the components of the characters as etymological, which they are not. At least not in 90% of cases.
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