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- Title
Zhuangzi's Meontological Notion of Time.
- Authors
Chai, David
- Abstract
This article investigates the concept of time as it is laid forth in the Daoist text, the Zhuangzi 莊子. Arguing that authentic time lies with cosmogony and not reality as envisioned by humanity, the Zhuangzi casts off the ontology of the present-now in favor of the existentially creative negativity of Dao 道. As the pivot of Dao, nothingness not only allows us to side-step the issue of temporal directionality, it reflects the meontological nature of Daoist cosmology in general. Framing time in terms of the motion of nothingness, this paper concludes that the authentic time of Dao reveals itself through the principle of creation qua rest. Experiencing such temporal self-grounding, the sage becomes existentially awakened such that temporal ekstases becomes unfathomable.
- Subjects
ZHUANGZI, ca. 365 B.C.-ca. 290 B.C.; ZHUANGZI (Book); COSMOGONY; TIME; NOTHING (Philosophy)
- Publication
Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 2014, Vol 13, Issue 3, p361
- ISSN
1540-3009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11712-014-9384-z