《老子》文本中的修身與無名

Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University This article discusses Laozi’s concept of namelessness (wuming 無名）and his theory of bodily cultivation. The issue of bodily cultivation in ancient China is an issue of self-cultivation (xiushen 修身）and is an important one in Chinese culture...

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Published in:臺灣人類學刊 2009-12, Vol.7 (2), p.107-146
Main Author: 丁亮(Liang Ting)
Format: Article
Language:Chinese
Subjects:
body
Lao Tzu
name
namelessness
Scopus
self-cultivation
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修身
名
無名
老子
身體
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Summary:Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University This article discusses Laozi’s concept of namelessness (wuming 無名）and his theory of bodily cultivation. The issue of bodily cultivation in ancient China is an issue of self-cultivation (xiushen 修身）and is an important one in Chinese culture. Laozi proposes the very interesting idea of namelessness as the key to self-cultivation. Laozi considers that the worst problems in life come from desires； hence, the aim of self-cultivation is to diminish desires to reach the state of desirelessness. Since desires derive from colorful, tangible objects, Laozi believes that the way to obtain a state of desirelessness is through cultivating mindful namelessness. As objects obtain objective existence and become sources of desire through the process of naming and differentiation, Laozi argues that stopping the process of naming (to reach “namelessness”) would result in the non-differentiation of objects and thus desirelessness.
ISSN:1727-1878