魏晉『莊子』注釋史における郭象の位置

Abstract

Guo Xiang (265?-311) wrote the oldest existing commentary on Zhuangzi in the Western Jin period and his work was the most influential one throughout the Northern and Southern dynasties. Before Guo accomplished his commentary, there were three important commentaries (only existing partially respectively) on Zhuangzi, namely, Cui Zhuan's, Xiang Xiu's and Sima Biao's. In this article, through a comparison of Guo's commentary with the fragments of these three works, I examine the influence of three works on Guo's commentary from the linguistic, historical, and hermeneutic view-points. Guo took over the linguistic and hermeneutic comments of preceding works, but never used historical investigations made by three commentators. Based on such understanding, I discuss the originality of Guo Xiang which is characterized by the notion of Qiyi 齊一, or equality of ten thousand things.