Fan Wu Liu Xing(On The Forming of Things)is a newly found and very valued philosophical text which is important for understanding the view of cosmos and nature and the political philosophy in ancient China.This text d...Fan Wu Liu Xing(On The Forming of Things)is a newly found and very valued philosophical text which is important for understanding the view of cosmos and nature and the political philosophy in ancient China.This text does not belong to the type of work which is assumed as Qu Yuan’s Chu Ci(Poems of Chu)by the philologists who edited the text,but a work of early Huang-Lao scholars and the nuclear concept of the "One" in it provides very powerful evidences for this fact.It is based on the "One" instead of the Dao to construct a cosmology which is not only similar to Lao Tzu’s cosmology,but also different from the latter as well.It also reveals the cause of many natural phenomena by using the "One" fundamentally and establishes a system of political philosophy through the media of the "One" and the "heart/mind".展开更多
文摘Fan Wu Liu Xing(On The Forming of Things)is a newly found and very valued philosophical text which is important for understanding the view of cosmos and nature and the political philosophy in ancient China.This text does not belong to the type of work which is assumed as Qu Yuan’s Chu Ci(Poems of Chu)by the philologists who edited the text,but a work of early Huang-Lao scholars and the nuclear concept of the "One" in it provides very powerful evidences for this fact.It is based on the "One" instead of the Dao to construct a cosmology which is not only similar to Lao Tzu’s cosmology,but also different from the latter as well.It also reveals the cause of many natural phenomena by using the "One" fundamentally and establishes a system of political philosophy through the media of the "One" and the "heart/mind".
