I want to study the problem of Huang-Lao thought, comparing and analyzing its own theory about The Four Treatises of Guan Zi and He-guan-zi in this thesis. Because the established Huang-Lao thought is limited in Dao-Fa theory, we can't examine its...
I want to study the problem of Huang-Lao thought, comparing and analyzing its own theory about The Four Treatises of Guan Zi and He-guan-zi in this thesis. Because the established Huang-Lao thought is limited in Dao-Fa theory, we can't examine its own theory color in Huang-Lao literatures. This ristricted comprehension about Huang-Lao theory is connected the cultural transmission and the circulation of the old chinese philosophy in pre-Qin. But Huang-Lao thought paved the way for its theory to reproduce pre-Qin all classes of philosophers newly, through the theory development in the change of the phases of the age. The Four Treatises of Guan Zi and He-guan-zi succeed to the Dao-theory of ancient Daoist commonly, and of its own method, they search for the possibility of the social expansion. If The Four Treatises of Guan Zi emphasizes on the organic relation and communication of the nature and society in Dao and Qi, He-guan-zi emphasizes on the communication of the nature and society in Qi and Sage. Also, Huang-Lao thought combines Daoist concept of the ancient Daoism with the main socio-political theory of all classes of a philosophers organically and then, it produces the new concept that substitutes the natural view of the ancient Daoism and it grows. The Jing-qi theory of The Four Treatises of Guan Zi and the Yuan-qi theory of He-guan-zi that has the meaning of the materials about the original theory of the universe formation, offers the new developmental energy for the chinese philosophy including Huang-Lao school. The JingQi-theory in the Four Treatises of Guan Zi is to grope for a philosophical idea to unite principle idea composing the world with detailed and material idea uniformly. And the characteristic of epistemology in the Four Treatises of comprehension Tao-theory requires continuous mental culture of a recognizing subject to accumulate Qi With Tao. In the Four Treatises, of comprehension Tao-theory abstracts sensible experience by a sensory organ, and it applies a reasonable analysis method accumulating Qi and a objective thinking attitude of a man, which is stood by a mental culture of inner and calm meditation. Namely an epistemology and a mental culture is groped uniformly in the Four Treatises to consider a general principle in the various phenomenon of a matter. The Four Treatises agree to formal discrimination of nature and society accepting the actual politic states of the Age of The Warring States objectively. And, in the aspect of contents, they bore a new thinking pattern of Taoist in the nature and society without qualitative discrimination corresponding with the origin and aim. The He-guan-zi succeeds to the Daoism of primitive Daoist as other Huang-Lao literatures. But in the He-guan-zi, the substance of universe and the law of a movement are explained yuanqi, tiandi, the principles of yinyang, life in comparison with Dao concretely. Especially it shows yuanqi view for the first time in pre-Qin literatures. The presentation of yuanqi tries out the true interpretation on Dao-theory adding material meanings on the origin and principle of a universe formation. This trial paved the way for its philosophy directly forming a materialism universe formation of a basic qi since Qin and Han. The main principle of yinyang and tiandi of the nature view of He-guan-zi changes into methology of politic. The principle harmonizing yinyang with tiandi in He-guan-zi is unfolded the social principle of political division governing a nation ideally. He-guan-zi is searching for a political ideal of nothing is left undone in the principle of a nature and it is searching for concrete actual possibility in the principle of a society extracting from the theory of a nature. Thus, Huang-Lao school played the thought-historical parts, keeping pace with the times and after ages reproducing philosophy newly, not only Daoist but also all classes of philosophers.