The View Of Laozi's "Nature"

Mou Zongsan, said that, in comparison with Confucianism as the metaphysics of Being-form, Daoism can be taken as the metaphysics of vision-form. It has been said that Mou's approach of interpretation was based on Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi. The main purpose of this paper is to re-examine this view and to indicate the problems with Mou's work by comparing the corresponding paragraphs both in Wang Bi's work and Mou'sTalent and Mysterious Reasoning. On the one hand, it retraces the philosophical thinking of Wang Bi, probes the relation and analyzes the difference between his thought and his commentary on the Laozi and points out the shortcomings with the understanding of Wang Bi by the notion of metaphysics of vision-form. On the other hand, it will present the intention to inherit critically Mou's interpretation of Laozi, and try to find the possibility of creation and development of the studies of Laozi.