《天对》是唐朝杰出的法家政治家柳宗元的一篇著名文章。它以回答战国末年诗人屈原的《天问》所提出的关于宇宙、关于自然、关于历史的一系列问题的形式,阐述了柳宗元的无神论和反天命的唯物主义思想。今天,我们阅读这篇文章,了解法家的唯物主义思想在当时所达到的高度及其对于当时社会所起的进步作用,研究总结历史上儒法斗争的经验,这对于普及、深入、持久地开展批林批孔运动是有意义的。 “Heaven is right” is a famous essay by Liu Zongyuan, a prominent legal statesman in the Tang Dynasty. It expounds Liu Zongyuan’s atheism and anti-fantasy materialism in response to a series of questions about the universe, about nature and history proposed by “Heaven” in the late Warring States poet Qu Yuan. Today, we read this article to understand the height attained by the legalist’s materialistic thought at the time and its role in the progress of the society at that time, and to study and summarize the experience of the Confucian-law struggle in history. This is of great significance to the popularization, deepening and lasting It is significant to carry out the campaign of criticizing Lin and Kong Dong.