FINDING HOPE AND CERTAINTY: WANG BI’S COMMENTARIES ON THE YIJING

Tze-Ki HON

doi:10.1163/15406253-0470102009

FINDING HOPE AND CERTAINTY: WANG BI’S COMMENTARIES ON THE YIJING

Tze-Ki HON^*

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Department of Chinese and History

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In this article, I analyze Wang Bi's (226-249) essays in General Comments on the Changes of the Zhou (Zhouyi Lueli《周易略例》). I argue that these essays reveal Wang Bi's unique approach to finding hope and certainty in an ever-changing world. Taking trigrams and hexagrams as symbols of forces that shape our life, Wang Bi creates a philosophical framework that includes two components: (1) a dynamic ontology that stresses the codependence of part and whole, and (2) an attitude of life that views contingency as a reinvigorating force rather than a devastating force.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	84-102
Journal	Journal of Chinese Philosophy
Volume	47
Issue number	1-2
Online published	3 Mar 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/15406253-0470102009
Publication status	Published - Mar 2020

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