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Life
Academic contribution
In short, concise argument Wang Bi to replace the cumbersome predecessors Notes to abstract thinking and moral principles of rejection as the number of school and Divination superstition, to usher in a generation after school fresh air. Qing "Siku Hall" scholar commented: "" easy "the book of divination, so the end of camp, flow in Divination. Bi by its very spacious and the attack, and were able to row attack Confucianism, a new study from the Standard." ("Si Ku Quan Shu yi," the abstract)
Wang Bi books are: "morality Note" Volume 2 "Book Notes", Volume 1, "The Analects of Confucius clear up doubts," Volume 3, "Wang Bi set" 5, "Book of Changes Yan of" Volume 1, "I mean a little case of" 2 volume and so on. Is more than Lost. Zhonghua Book published in 1980, "Wang Bi set school release."
Later influence
Wang Bi "easy" injection, unconventional, it was out of blame, such as financial refute Xun Wang Bi "Premium justice." In this regard, he answer was: "Fuming enough to find a very faint, but can not go to nature." Sima's standing as most metaphysicians opposition groups, will surely blow, Wang Bi, "easy" does not include school officials began to note can only be spread in the community and those who opt for the later metaphysics. Jin, Southern Song, Qi, Northern Dynasty, "change" is more than Dr. Zheng Xuan Theory. Up Southern Liang, Chen Shi, Wang Bi "easy" injection was tied to Chinese culture and Zheng Note. Emperor advocate of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism to metaphysics about the "easy" atmosphere rather Sheng. Wang Bi "easy" injection has become popular, Zheng learning is more and more little and the almost absolute.
Wang Bi's core philosophy is "nothing", and Lao Tzu's "Tao one, one two, two three, three things," the universe of different colors with speculative metaphysics. He I of the universe based on how the development of the availability of ontological metaphysics. He believes that "all things 10000 shape, its normalization is also. What the cause of a? Because no too." In this way, Chinese Metaphysical Studies is now taking shape in the hands of Wang Bi. Wang Bi's your both great influence on later Neo-Confucianism, his metaphysics of Buddhism in China, also play an important role in localization, the "Forgetting as the" way of thinking of ancient Chinese poetry, painting, calligraphy and other art theory also to some extent.
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