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Study On The Evolution Of Relationship Between Body And Soul In Han And Wei Jin Southem And Northem Dynasties

Posted on:2018-10-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Q MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330518978425Subject:Philosophy
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The problem of body and spirit has always been an important issue in the history of the development of Chinese philosophy.With the introduction of Buddhism between the period of two Hans Dynasties,Wei Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties became an important period for the discussion of body and spirit.The essay Focusing on the development and evolution of the problem of body and soul in this period,This essay explores the contents of the the contents of the discussion of the issue from the Han Dynasty to the Wei Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties,and discusses the evolution of the historical development.At the beginning,the Discussion on the relation between body and soul in the Han Dynasty was carried out on the basis of the relevant discussions in the pre-Qin period.The philosopher,the spirit by simply name of “soul”,began in the Chun Qiu Period time,prevail in the warring states period and the Western Han Dynasty,after the Eastern Han Dynasty philosophers,usually take the "spirit" name of “soul”.The term“soul”came out in Chun Qiu Period,then prevail in the warring states period and the Western Han Dynasty.Since the Eastern Han Dynasty,philosophers simply called the spirit as “soul”.And "soul" also related to "ghost","spirit" and other concepts.Prehistoric Taoism and Confucianism have discussed the relationship between body and soul.The relationship between the body and the soul in the Han Dynasty was mainly discussed from the two aspects of refined Jing Qi’s Pneumatism and theory of spiritual perishability.Jing Qi’s view point that "Qi" is the element of all life,the formation of the concept of God-shaped form;and theory of spiritual perishability holds that human body constitutes the basis of all the objects.The representative philosophers’ like Huan Tan and Wang Chong,they emphasize that human’s soul exists on human body.Following the Han Dynasty,then Xuan-xue philosophy of the Wei and Jin Dynasties and Buddhism as the starting point,to explore the impact of the two under the new development of the problem.Xuan-xue philosophy of the Wei and Jin Dynastiesthrough the "the discrimination of exist and nothing " of the exploration and controversy,to promote further "body" and "soul" the development of far-reaching significance.At the same time,due to the introduction of Buddhism,to the Northern and Southern Dynasties,launched a relationship between the shape andform is the main body or soul based ideological debate,which will be the relationship between the body and soul to the development of both the direction of soul.And it is this change,laid the Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties relationship of "body and soul" between the basic development of the problem.Finally,we try to discuss the characteristics and rules of the development of the problem of body and soul from the Han Dynasty to the Wei Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties.From the divine form from the "concept of principal spirit and subordinate form" to the "concept of principal form and subordinate spirit",and then to the theory of the mortality,the problem of “body and soul” is always in the shape of soul and the body of contrast,is the interpretation of God and the understanding of the gradual deepening of the process,you can see the influence of Buddhism.The discussion of this period is an important part of the development of ancient Chinese relation between body and soul issue.
Keywords/Search Tags:The view of body and soul, Ghost and God, Jing Qi’s viewpoint, Buddhism, theory of the mortality
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