魏晋交迭の際における老莊思想の展開について

Abstract

In the period between the Cheng-shin era of Wei and the time covering over ten years when the Ssu-ma clan was triying to usurp, a change was taking place in the current of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu thought. In the Cheng-shih era the leaders of this school of thought were Ho Yen and Wang Kung, who put the current of thought in the Six Dynasties on a firm basis, synthesizing various currents of taoistic thought after the Cheng-an, especially the Tai-ho, eras and clarifying the meaning of Lao-tzu's "nothingness." Though already in this time there appeared symptoms indicating the emergence of the clan system, the Wei dynasty was still strong enough as a centralized state. And in the world of thought various schools of Taoism of Han were in existence. However, beginning with the regency of the Ssu-ma clan in the Cheng-shih era the clan system was becoming more and more powerful, and at the same time the school of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu with the utmost emphasis in the thought of Chuang-tzu was gaining ininfluence. This period is represented by the so-called "seven sages of the bamboo grove, " and the period is regarded as one of the most signicant periods of transition from the unified empire to the medieval ages of aristocracy.