Theory of the correlation between heaven and man (English: Tian-ren-xiangguan-shuo)

Japanese: 天人相関説 - てんじんそうかんせつ（英語表記）Tian-ren-xiangguan-shuo

A term in Chinese thought. Also known as the theory of heaven and man's response. The idea that there is a corresponding relationship between human affairs and natural phenomena (heaven), and that the good and bad actions of humans bring about abnormal changes in the natural world (good fortune or disaster). This idea was widely advocated by Confucian scholars in the Han dynasty, and it teaches that human affairs, especially the good and bad of politics, respond to heaven and manifest as natural disasters. The correlation between heaven and man is based on the principle of yin and yang, for example, heaven and man each have yin and yang, and when the yin energy of man moves, the yin energy of heaven moves in response, and so on, because the yin and yang of each react to each other. The theory of disaster (→ disaster thought) is a type of theory of the correlation between heaven and man.

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Japanese:

中国思想用語。天人感応説ともいう。人事と自然現象 (天) との間に対応関係があり，人間の行為の善悪が自然界の異変 (吉祥や災異) を呼起す，という思想。この思想は漢代の儒家が盛んに唱えて，広く流行したものであるが，人事のうち，特に政治のよしあしが天に感応して天変地異の現象となって現れると説く。天人の相関は陰陽二気の原理によって，たとえば，天と人とにそれぞれ陰陽二気があり，人の陰気が動けば天の陰気が応じて動く，というように，相互の陰陽が感応し合うからである，と考えた。災異説 (→災異思想 ) は天人相関説の一種である。

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