Title

Reinterpretations of Laozi's Metaphysics by Contemporary Scholars: Ontology, Aesthetics, Mythology, and Mysticism

Author

Hsi-san Lai  

Genre

Article  

Pages

35-83     

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Language

Chinese

Key words

Tzung-san Mou (牟宗三), Pao-hsin Yuan (袁保新), Xiao-gan Liu (劉笑敢), Wei-hsun Fu (傅偉勳), Wing-cheuk Chan (陳榮灼), Rur-bin Yang (楊儒賓), ontology, aesthetics, mythology, mysticism, Heidegger  

Abstract

   Tzung-san Mou was an important scholar who caused a paradigm shift in the study of Laozi's metaphysics. He abandoned Western speculative metaphysics and came back to Eastern practical metaphysics. There are several Contemporary scholars after Tzung-san Mou whose interpretations of Laozi's metaphysics are noteworthy: Pao-hsin Yuan (袁保新), Xiao-gan Liu (劉笑敢), Wei-hsun Fu (傅偉勳), Wing-cheuk Chan (陳榮灼), Rur-bin Yang (楊儒賓). In this article, I synthesize these scholars' analyses and, by way of induction, propose four different angles from which to study Daoist metaphysical interpretations: Ontology, Aesthetics, Mythology, and Mysticism.