چکیده:
Considering the cosmology with mythological form of consciousness era as the primary base of metaphysical form and the basis of development toward an integrated cosmology, political ideas has been placed in an organic link with a metaphysical system in the ancient Persians as well as Chinese political thought. Based on considerable similarities among cosmological systems in civilizations e.g. the Chinese, Indian, Egyptian, and Persian nations a comparison of the metaphysical base of the ancient civilizations’ political ideas could be an in-teresting subject in the field of political thought. This article has a brief comparative glance at the metaphysical basis of the political thought in the Persian as well as Chinese cosmology. The research questions include:
1- In the two ancient civilizations – Persia and China – how was political thought related to their metaphysical bases. And;
2- In comparison, how could the relation conceptualized?
This study enables us to understand the nature of political thought in the first days of human civilization.
خلاصه ماشینی:
29-38) A Comparative Study of the Metaphysical Basis of Ancient Iran-China Political Approach Dal Seung yu* Department of Iranian Studies Hankuk University Received: 5 Sep 2015 ; Accepted: 15 June 2016 Abstract: Considering the cosmology with mythological form of consciousness era as the primary base of metaphysical form and the basis of development toward an integrated cosmology, political ideas has been placed in an organic link with a metaphysical system in the ancient Persians as well as Chinese political thought.
Introduction China and Persia are two ancient civilizations each of which formed a big stable culture; meanwhile each of them showed a different kind of cosmology in the formation phase of its civilization; one cosmology– the Chinese cosmology – is based on ethics, while the other (the Persian cosmology) is based on religion.
Cosmology and political ideas Although there are not considerable texts from the early days of human civilization history, including the Chinese and Persian civilization on the field called "political thought", (or it could not have been provid- ed), it can certainly be said that political idea has been the main part of all cosmolo- gies even at the time of dominating mythi- cal cosmology.
Cosmology has presented an order of life in an ideal form and a divine source where the earthly and heaven- ly existence obeys a unified order, which had been known to be based upon justice and temperance.