곽점초간 [노자]의 철학

Abstract

The problem tackled in this essay is the system of thought on Laozi of Chu bamboo Slips, in Ancient China. As everyone knows, so-called Tao(道) is the hard core concept of Laozi. As Chinese tradition has it, we are indebted to a border guard with philosophical proclivities for the existence of the key Daoist text, the Laozi, also known under the name of its reputed author, Laozi. The text itself is problematic from a scholary point of view and a number of passages are corrupted, and some are so abstruse as to be incomprehensible. I think that the concept of Tao is a multi-dimensional one. The most common rendering of the Chinese term is “Way”, which most closely approximates the original. Tao is the “Way” in both the concrete sense of a road travelled and the more abstract sense of the natural course or route to be followed. According to Laozi, Tao is the way things becomes, the way of process in changing(生滅變化法則) and dynamic reality itself(力動的實在) in the world or cosmos. Therefore the meanings of Tao have two dimensional one. Firstly, Tao is a kind of principle things become. Secondly, Tao is a kind of dynamic reality by itself things become. there is interdependence between principle and dynamic reality in the system of Laozi. Because Tao as a kind of principle is very a principle of dynamic reality in changing cosmos and Tao as a kind of dynamic reality is reality following its principle. Thus Tao is two meanings both principle and dynamic reality. I think that this system of Laozi is the mixed fabric of two ways of thinking, Ontologico- cosmological Thinking and Co-relational Thinking. Co-relational Thinking is concerned about a principle of process in the changing world and Ontologico-cosmological Thinking is concerned about a dynamic reality organize the changing cosmos by self-developing. I designate this mixed fabric of Two ways of thinking to the textile of dual thinking in Laozi.