英文摘要
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This article is meant to discuss Mou Zongsan's interpretation and insight about Laozi's philosophy. Mou interpreted Laozi's philosophy as some sort of ”visionary metaphysics,” and such interpretation has been highly valued by the academic circle, prompting both positive and negative discussions. The goal of this article is to examine whether Mou's interpretation of Laozi is proper by means of two criteria, the ”thorough understanding of the related documents” and the ”coherence of the internal analysis about the theory.” Here the writer discusses if Mou's interpretation thoroughly explicates the related documents of Laozi regarding ”reversals the movement of Tao,” ”generation and transformation of things on their own” and aggressiveness, ”emptiness and void.” Then, we analyze Mou's theory in view of the ”directivity of Tao” and whether ”subjective practical state of mind can correspond to the world,” while discussing if there are any explanatory and deductive difficulties with Mou's claims. After all this discussion, it is preliminarily assumed that there are indeed some explanatory difficulties with Mou's explanation of Laozi, which is in need of further inquiry.
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