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Title: | The Laozi and the Cosmogonic Turn in Classical Chinese Philosophy | Authors: | Perkins, Franklin | Keywords: | Laozi Cosmogony |
Issue Date: | 2016 | Source: | Perkins, F. (2016). The Laozi and the Cosmogonic Turn in Classical Chinese Philosophy. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 11(2), 185-205. | Series/Report no.: | Frontiers of Philosophy in China | Abstract: | In the past several decades, our understanding of the Laozi has been revolutionized by the discovery of new textual materials. While research has focused on various manuscript copies, the discovery of other cosmogonic texts dated to the late fourth century BC indicate that the Laozi was not as unique as it once seemed. Taken together, these texts show a radical shift in philosophical orientation occurring by the late 4th century BC, a change toward concerns with cosmogony and accounts of human beings as merely one part of the natural world. The goal of this paper is to analyze the various elements of this shift, using the Taiyi Sheng Shui 太一生水 (Great One Generates Water), Hengxian 恆先 (Constancy First), and Fan Wu Liu Xing 凡物流形 (All Things Flow into Form), along with the Laozi bamboo strips found at Guodian. The first section examines the commonalities between the various cosmogonies; the second places cosmogony in the context of other distinctive concerns that the texts share, turning toward the implications of the cosmogonies for human action. The final section examines one of the fundamental points on which the texts disagree. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83772 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42807 |
ISSN: | 1673-3436 | DOI: | 10.3868/s030-005-016-0015-9 | Schools: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Rights: | © 2016 Higher Education Press and Brill Academic Publishers. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Frontiers of Philosophy in China, Higher Education Press and Brill Academic Publishers. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-005-016-0015-9]. | Fulltext Permission: | open | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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