A Neo-Confucian Criticism of Daoism: Wang Fuzhi’s Contradictory Remarks on the Laozi

Based on Zhu Xi’s statement that Laozi’s teachings were very cruel, Wang Fuzhi condemned Laozi as a crafty, petty person in his Confucian commentaries. Yet, he had to understand the Laozi or Daodejing sympathetically when he commented on it in Laozi Yan老子衍 (Extended Commentary on the Laozi). As a re...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Frontiers of philosophy in China 2020, Vol.15 (1), p.93-121
1. Verfasser:	TAN Mingran
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anthropocentrism Cognition & reasoning Laozi Laozi Yan Taoism Wang Fuzhi
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