Title: Inheritance and Development:Philosophical Interpretation to the Cosmology of He Guan Zi
Abstract: He Guan Zi is an important book of Huang-Lao Taoist school,it succeed to the former Huang-Lao thought in the Warring States Period,and put forward very characteristic cosmology of Tao,Heaven and Gas.To expand the meaning of Tao,He Guan Zi used many corporeal categories,such as Yin-yang,Vigor,heaven and earth,and changed Tao which produced the world to the law of the world,furthermore,the book absorbed Gas into the Tao,which strengthened its realistic nature.This theory not only developed the concept of Tian dao and the naturalism that originated by Laozi,but cleaned up the superstitious elements in traditional kismet theology,therefore it had bright rational brilliance.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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