人境の自然 : 陶淵明における自然の新意

Abstract

"Nature" is a core issue in the intellectual history of the Six Dynasties. In the era in which nature went through heated debates, Tao Yuan-Ming strived to redefine the concept of nature by practising 'the return to nature' in his own life through a series of dialogues and reflections, and embodying a life settled in the natural world. This essay summarizes Tao's contributions as 'nature in the inhabited world' in four sections, 'nature and the inhabited world', 'landscape and the idyllic', 'following the cosmic transformation and recognizing the destiny', and 'alcohol drinking and metaphor'. The argument is to articulate 'the civilized nature' as composing of 'human and beings' on the one hand, and 'human relationships' on the other.