From "the Debate Of Being And Non Being" To "Natural" Realm-spirit Of Wang Bi’s Philosophy

On the academic and social background of Confucianism decline and order imbalances in the Han and Wei dynasty, Wang Bi sets up their own system of metaphysics with Lao Zi, Book of Changes, Analects of note along the two dimensions of knowledge and practice. From a cognitive perspective, Wang BI expands to think about their meaning and relationship to each other on "Wu", "TAO", "Natural" and so on as the core and proposes a set of theories of the universe exist and mode of operation; From the practical point of view, Wang Bi attempts to guide the cognitive theory of ideas through the subjectivity of man transformation to provide guidance on specific social practice.As far as cognition, Wang Bl’s philosophy Viewed as ontology of "Wu", but not modern philosophy ontology, is the systems of philosophy which spreads through the fundamental concept of "Wu".From "Tao", not only does "Tao" create all things with "invisible formation", but also is called the source of all things exist, known as the origin of the universe, and "Tao" turns into all the bases and principles of all existent things for "Wu"’s "all-pass" and " all by" in all things; From the things, " Wu " not only belongs to the natural properties of the concrete, but also points to the external environment of concrete things existed, as being the precondition of keeping the natural Properties; From the view of the of relationship between "Dao" and "things", the self-governance of everything that "Dao" makes through "relying on nothing" and "inaction" reflects its nature of being so, that is "Spontaneity" Wang Bi says. It can be clearly seen, the functional "Wu " achieve things’"Spontaneity", and due to being not against "Spontaneity", "Dao" has its nature, that is to say, the "inaction" of "Dao" accomplishes its nature by itself. In sum, Wang Bi’" Wu " isdivided into existent and functional meaning " Wu ", it makes " Dao " and everything contact up closely for existence and action of" Wu ",and shows out their logic consistency among "Dao"," Wu " and "all the things", while also can see, Neo-Taoism is still looked upon as ontology for " Dao ", " Dao " is the foundation of existences and development of everything.As far as practice, Wang Bi believes there exists primitive harmony union between heaven and humane basing on China traditional "Unity of Man with Heaven" theory.Due to people belongs to a part of world, Way of Heaven is more fundamental than Way of Humane, so he looks upon Way of Heaven as the principle, and thinks people can makes Way of Humane to correspond with Way of Heaven by their own efforts, that is people could make Way of Humane "spontaneity" through transforming Way of Heaven to Way of Humane to keep social development harmony and ordered. So how do you attain above goals? Since the "Dao" cultivates all the things and makes them "spontaneity" with "relying on nothing" and "inaction", so people only have to imitate the "inaction" of "Dao" to deal with things, namely doing as a matter of inherent quality, they can keep the nature of things. How do you do to follow the nature of things?Wang Bi believes, "Dao" fulfils all the things in the mindlessness, therefore, Person as a member of all things whose natural hearts equal to the heart of heaven and there is nothing in their natural hearts. As long as people keep nothing in heart, they could do by observing "Dao" or "inaction" Compliance of the road can maintain myself and others’ "spontaneity", from this,the way of heaven transforms to the way humanity, heaven heart to humanity heart, "inaction" of heaven to humanity "inaction". But in actual social practice, the natural heart of people is often effected or stimulated by external environment and is covered by individual of subjective wills or desires, which makes action of " mindlessness " change action of" mind ness " however,they deviated from "Dao", so people only rejected desires inside and keep peace ness and unselfishness, they can return the way of heaven, that is recovery the "inaction" of people. As existing in society and cannot being separated from society, Wang bi puts forward the way of recuperating mind that people "should not be burdened by them when they confront other things. He believes recuperating mind can achieve or implement two levels: one is the heart of the "selflessness" and " unselfishness ", who can do according to "Dao"; one is the heart of "nothing", people can realize the ideal "unit of man with heaven", or "Spontaneity" of people. The former embodies the individual social morals cultivation to other and the monarch’s political cultivation in the practice, Wang Bi’s political philosophy of monarchs inaction and subjects for themselves is based on the he "selflessness" and " unselfishness "of King as precondition; The latter embodies the highest state of personality in relation to the individual, although not achieving it in the Wei and Jin dynasties, the scholars is spiritually liberated and free. In term of Comparing to the politics and ethics, political philosophy is the theory core of Wang bi, which purpose is to provide the way of inner angelhood and outer kingliness for Monarch to resolve social contradictions and solute social actual problems, eventually find out a permanent political ruled mode and a method of Monarch mind cultivation. But actually, the political theory of outer kingliness has established, however cannot pay implementation, and inner angelhood philosophy has exerted far-reaching influence.From above we also can see, the heart is the knot which contacts heaven with humanity and finishes the conversion from " the debate of being and nonbeing" to "natural realm", it is the key of Wang BI’s metaphysics in practiceEven though there is also the theory of gaps and shortcomings in practice in Wang BI’s philosophy system, as the founder of the Wei and Jin metaphysics, his ideological theory has Profound significance in General in promoting individual awareness, human liberation, active thought as well as in the development of literature and art; As far as the individual,metaphysics also plays an important role in social distress on looking for soul’s resting place for individuals, improving the quality of individual personality, purifying the people’s minds and shaping the pursuit of individual aspects at the time of social distress; " The theory’s significance of selflessness", "nonentity" and " Spontaneity " should not be underestimated in modern society.