Sage nature and the logic of namelessness: Reconstructing he Yan's explication of Dao

• Main Author: CHAN, Alan Kam Leung
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Asian History; Asian Studies; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/326
• Institution: Singapore Management University

There is little question that the concept of wu 無, variously translated as “nothing,” “nonbeing,” and “negativity,” is central to the early medieval Chinese intellectual enterprise. Famously, the Jin shu 晉書 (History of the Jin dynasty [265–420]) relates that during the Zhengshi 正始 reign period (240–...