<Articles>The Idea of Yang-ch'uan 楊泉 : A Milestone of Rationalistic View of Nature

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  • <論説>楊泉の思想 : 合理主義的自然観の一道標
  • 楊泉の思想--合理主義的自然観の一道標
  • ヨウセン ノ シソウ ゴウリ シュギテキ シゼンカン ノ イチドウヒョウ

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Yang-ch'üan 楊泉 in San-kuo 三国 and Chin 晉 period was a philosopher who developed the rationalistic and materialistic view of nature; on the basis of his idea that the origin of natural world is "water" and Ch'i 気 drived from "water" constitutes all things, he offered a objective interpretation of natural world. In his thought natural world all was grasped as a expressive form of Ch'i and also he denied the existence of spirit seperated from body, applying this view of nature to the human being, and again he had a keen interest in technique which was led by his view of nature. Yang-ch'üan's idea has some weak points or limit; it is in his irrational idea, for instance, that he accused Hun-t'ien theory 渾天説 for inconsistence of Tou-chi 斗極 with zenith and affirmed the retribution theory of fortune or misfortune as a result of human deed with good or evil, which is due to immaturity in the rational character of his idea. Yang-ch'üan's thought takes a pioneering co-ordinate in the development of the view of nature in the Chinese history of ideas, and constitutes a link of materialistic idea in the period of Han 漢 and Liu-ch'ao 六朝.

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  • 史林

    史林 50 (1), 69-87, 1967-01-01

    THE SHIGAKU KENKYUKAI (The Society of Historical Research), Kyoto University

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