An Analysis of Chinese Traditional Legitimacy Theory

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10.2991/assehr.k.201023.003How to use a DOI?

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China, legitimacy, political legitimacy

Abstract

Although the concept of legitimacy comes from the west, in fact, China also has the legitimacy theory of localization. China’s legitimacy thought appears in the form of political legitimacy. Since the Yin and Zhou dynasties, around the core proposition of “consolidating the ruling power”, a large number of political legitimacy thoughts have been produced in the practice of seeking the highest basis for the authority of rulers. Theoretically, these thoughts of political legitimacy are carried out through four logical approaches, namely, taking heaven as the ultimate basis of legitimacy, virtue as the rational standard of legitimacy, the people as the realistic support of legitimacy, and ceremony as the fundamental guarantee of legitimacy. These thoughts can be divided into four categories: being ordered by heaven, matching heaven with virtue, protecting the people and respecting heaven, and conforming name and ceremony Legalization means undertake the mission of proving the legitimacy of ruling power.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Kaiyang Mo
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/06
TI  - An Analysis of Chinese Traditional Legitimacy Theory
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 5th International Conference on Modern Management and Education Technology (MMET 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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