『洪範皇極內篇』에 나타난 蔡沈의 數本論과 그 세계관 - 宋代 象數易學의 사유지평을 중심으로

Abstract

The essay is focused upon explicating the Characteristics of Xiang-shu Changes in Cai Shen's Hong-fan-huang-ji-nei-pian. He understands the principle of the nine categories of Hongfan and its logic, applies them to the number of He-tu and Luo-shu and their categories, and thus helps to establish the science of He-luo. The science of He-luo puts emphasis upon the human consciousness of intuitively responding to a law concerning the revolving order of a heavenly body. It is to try to establish the ontological canon of humanity. Particularly, his view of principle and number is that number has a prescription of principle from the perspective of a unity of principle and number. It seems to me that his doctrine concentrates on a quantitative side, not on a qualitative one, in the changing world of material, which fall into "a fallacy of hasty generalization." But he cannot deduce the essence of ethical rule or moral law from a logic of number.