Time transcending tense: An examination of heng heng in pre-Qin Daoist philosophy
Time transcending tense: An examination of heng 恒 in pre-Qin Daoist philosophy
Recent scholarship on the philosophy of time in pre-Qin Daoist thought has not yet produced a thorough examination of dao’ s relationship to time. This essay resolves this omission through a systematic study of the concept heng heng in pre-Qin Daoist literature. While principally expressing the ‘con...
| VerfasserInnen: | ; |
|---|---|
| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Verfügbarkeit prüfen: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Veröffentlicht: |
2024
|
| In: |
Asian philosophy
Jahr: 2024, Band: 34, Heft: 4, Seiten: 291–307 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
wu wu
B dao dao B Pre-Qin Daoism B heng heng B Time |
| Online-Zugang: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Recent scholarship on the philosophy of time in pre-Qin Daoist thought has not yet produced a thorough examination of dao’ s relationship to time. This essay resolves this omission through a systematic study of the concept heng heng in pre-Qin Daoist literature. While principally expressing the ‘constancy’ of dao, heng also significantly presupposes dao’ s ability to change. This change is characterized in the texts as a cyclical movement of ‘return’ and identified with the universe’ s circular metanarrative of generation and reintegration. The essay turns to examine pre-Qin Daoist literature’ s use of primal wu wu metaphors to describe dao. It concludes that they present dao as undifferentiated infinitude, liberating dao as heng from the tense structure of past-present-future that divides life in time. These metaphors further associate the movement of dao with the flow of time, reformulating time’ s relentless ever-greater advancement into an endless cycle of creative transformation. Recent scholarship on the philosophy of time in pre-Qin Daoist thought has not yet produced a thorough examination of dao’s relationship to time. This essay resolves this omission through a systematic study of the concept heng 恒 in pre-Qin Daoist literature. While principally expressing the ‘constancy’ of dao, heng also significantly presupposes dao’s ability to change. This change is characterized in the texts as a cyclical movement of ‘return’ and identified with the universe’s circular metanarrative of generation and reintegration. The essay turns to examine pre-Qin Daoist literature’s use of primal wu 無 metaphors to describe dao. It concludes that they present dao as undifferentiated infinitude, liberating dao as heng from the tense structure of past-present-future that divides life in time. These metaphors further associate the movement of dao with the flow of time, reformulating time’s relentless ever-greater advancement into an endless cycle of creative transformation. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1469-2961 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Asian philosophy
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2024.2344958 |
