What is the difference between Confucianism and the “Mandate of Heaven”?
I’m not sure if confucianism could be used to support the Mandate of Heaven, but I think Confucious himself would have supported it at least in a political sense, I’m unsure whether he would in a religious sense) since he had the revolutionary ideas in China about replacing “nobility by blood” with “nobility by virtue”(*). Since the Mandate of Heaven says that someone should not rule if they are unfit, and should be replaced by someone who is whether they are of noble birth or not (this last part is clearly in line with what confucious taught about nobility being more about virtue than blood/heredity).
