「命」的觀念，在中國哲學以至中國文化，影響極其廣泛，源遠流長。它涉及宗教、道德、政治、人生態度、通俗文化，以至迷信，亦跟儒家道家密切相關。

本課之目的，是在對「命」觀念之分析，以顯示其眾多涵義，並討論所涉及的爭議。

此課之內容，包含天命、義命、性命、安命、正命、俟命、立命、無命、知命、運命、遭命、受命、隨命、祿命、壽命、命根等。

本課所依之文本，雖有歷史之先後，但重點不在源流，而在觀念之分解疏通。此包括《詩經》《易》《論語》《孟子》《莊子》《中庸》《論衡》《墨子•非命》以及宋明儒(如張橫渠、二程子) ，以至唯識宗等。

*「本課需閱讀文本及議題討論」

The concept of "fate" has an extremely wide influence on Chinese philosophy and even Chinese culture and has a long history. It involves religion, morality, politics, life attitudes, popular culture, and even superstition, and is also closely related to Confucianism and Taoism.

The purpose of this lesson is to analyze the concept of "fate" to show its many meanings and discuss the controversies involved.

The content of this lesson includes destiny, righteous destiny, life, peace of life, right destiny, immediate destiny, establishment of destiny, no destiny, knowing destiny, destiny, fate, receiving destiny, following destiny, fortune destiny, life span, life root, etc.

Although the text on which this lesson is based has a historical sequence, the focus is not on the origin, but on the decomposition and unblocking of concepts. This includes "The Book of Songs", "Yi", "The Analects", "Mencius", "Zhuangzi", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "Lunheng", "Mozi Fei Ming", as well as Confucian scholars of the Song and Ming Dynasties (such as Zhang Hengqu and Er Chengzi), as well as the Weishi Sect, etc.

*"This lesson requires reading text and topic discussion"

馮友蘭，《中國哲學史》
徐復觀，《中國人性論史》

Feng Youlan, "History of Chinese Philosophy"
Xu Fuguan, "History of Human Nature in China"