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The Quest on the context of Taoism in the thought of Gal Hong’s Taoist hermit

  • Journal of Korean Classical Chinese Literature
  • Abbr : 한문고전연구
  • 2019, 38(1), pp.323-353
  • DOI : 10.18213/jkccl.2019.38.1.012
  • Publisher : The Classical Chinese Literature Association of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : May 7, 2019
  • Accepted : June 18, 2019
  • Published : June 30, 2019

kim Chae Lin 1

1공주대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Gal Hong, as the thinker during the Wei-Jin(魏晉) period, believed that all humans can be a Taoist hermit(神仙). Gal Hong changed and developed ‘Progundity(玄)·Tao(道)·One(一)’ corresponding with Taoist hermit, and he regarded ‘Progundity(玄)·Tao(道)·One(一)’ as the ground of the Taoist hermit-thought. In other words, Gal Hong expanded the ontology of Taoist hermit-thought by ‘Progundity(玄)·Tao(道)·One(一)’, and further he organized the practical philosophy of ‘the Tao learning to be a Tao hermit(仙道)’ that can be Tao hermit by learning and practicing ‘Progundity(玄)·Tao(道)·One(一)’ as the ground of universe. Gal Hong’s theory, which anyone can be a Taoist hermit, is that anyone can be a Taoist hermit by learning if he want to be a Taoist hermit regardless of rank, the noble or humble, gender. In the one hand, this theory succeeded to the inaction-naturalness(無爲自然) of Lao-zi in harmony with the fatalism which said a Taoist hermit being only one born by the star of a Taoist hermit. In the other hand, we can’t identify whether who the Taoist hermit is or not, and thus it is itself included in a possibility that anyone can be the Taoist hermit. Therefore what is the most important is his will and effort to be the Taoist hermit. In conclusion, the historical meaning of Gal Hong’s Taoism is that he argue anyone can be a Taoist hermit by his concrete theory and method seeking to freedom and immortality which is on the basis that human can overcome his mortality.

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