Qi Transforming into Nature from Nothing - On the Cosmological Dimension of Neo-Taoism in the Wei and Jin Periods

Philosophy and Culture 30 (4):77-93 (2003)
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Metaphysics, although the cart before the horse, whether of ethnicity as the core, then the relevant discussion Wei scholars also often visible through the gasification point of view to illustrate the changes in the physical world of the generated examples. Do not say that in general it can be attributed to three different types of theories: He Yan, Wang Bi, Han Kangbo, , Zhan Zhang, etc. that the "natural gasification, a non-oriented"; Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Guo Xiang, etc. should be to " our own gas, Tao Shuo Wan-shaped ", that the gasification that is natural, without any final body, but different from the gasification of a non-oriented, said; In addition, Yang Quan, suggests the body's natural gas for the argument that chosen by the universe, the gas composition, gas and tried to explain by changes in the weather. Zhu said that although the arguments are different, then I fear it to be, you are naturally the main gasification, doing nothing is made ​​of the theory, this is the theory of the Wei, Jin, the main features of the gas. Though revolving around the differentiations between "essential and non-essential" as well as "being and nothingness," Neo-Taoism in the Wei and Jin Periods contains a lot of discourses on the creation and transformation of the material world from the perspective of metamorphosis . Those discourses are generally divided into three different types of theories: He Yian, Wang Bi, Han Kang-bo, Zhang Zhan and Lie-zi maintain that "Qi transforming into Nature from nothing"; Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, and Guo Xiang believe "Qi is nature cultivating everything," assuming that Qi is nature without any ultimate essence; besides, Yang Quan proposes that Qi is the essence of nature and that everything in the universe is made from Qi, by which he also tries to interpret the change of seasons. All these various theories are all based on the doctrine that Qi transforms into nature by doing nothing, which is characteristic of the theories of Qi in the Wei and Jin Periods

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