Abstract
Ji Kang (224-263) was a great writer and thinker of the Wei-Jin period. He said that he was indebted to and (Poems of Hidden Anger [Youfenshi]), and that Laozi and Zhuangzi are my teachers (Letter Breaking with Shan [Yu Shan Juyuan juejiao yishu]). But unlike He Yan and Wang Bi, Ji Kang did not accept Laozi's idea that comes from He did not take the mental construct of Nonbeing as the source or origin of the universe, nor did he, as some comrades suggest, take the material, physical qi (material force) as the foundation of the existence of all things in the universe. In Ji Kang's view, Where is this and Nonbeing? That is, why should we conceive of Being or Nonbeing as the source or origin of the universe? He proposed transcending totally the mysticism of Being and Nonbeing. The present article will discuss a few aspects of this question.
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