甲骨文、金文所见殷周之际道德观念的嬗变——兼论西周初期德治思想的产生

The inscriptions on bones and bronze objects and ethic values of Shang and Zhou Dynasties ——On the establishment of ethic-dominance at the beginning of West Zhou Dynasty

殷商易代之际 ,周初统治者为证明其所建新政权之合法性 ,极力宣扬以德得天下的理论 ,并从西周初期开始 ,逐渐构建起了“以德治国”的新的政治理念。传世典籍对此过程本有多方记载 ,在此则以相关文字从殷商甲骨文到西周金文的演化过程为基础 ,对西周早期“以德治国”思想的形成略作考究 。

During the transitional period from Shang to Zhou Dynasty, the dominators advocated ethic-dominance principles and fostered the new political concept of moralized administration. This part of history is recorded on many books, but the inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty and those on bronze objects of the West Zhou Dynasty have provided with the basis for the study of the moralized administration formed in the earlier Zhou Dynasty.