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Wang-chong's understanding of the Book of Changes -focusing on criticism of Fortune-telling, Prophecy and Apocryphal Texts-

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2023, (41), pp.81~99
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2023..41.004
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : November 30, 2022
  • Accepted : January 31, 2023
  • Published : January 31, 2023

Lee Oh-Ryun 1

1성균관대학교

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ABSTRACT

Wang-chong was a philosopher of the late Han Dynasty and he expressed his views on the Book of Changes in the Balanced Discourses. At that time, the Theory of image and number, Fortunetelling, Prognostication and Apocryphal Texts were very popular, and Wang-chong considered these theories to be related to the Book of Changes. This paper explores how Wang-chong understands the Book of Changes. According to Wang-chong, fortunetelling can never be trusted, he use a variety of arguments to express doubts about the fortunetelling. On the other hands, he points out that there is also a limit to Prognostication and Apocryphal Texts that developed Theory of mutual sympathy between heaven and man and explains that king's politics does not affect natural phenomenon. It was luck and will of heaven that Wang-chong introduced Fortunetelling and Prognostication and Apocryphal Texts to the wrong place. In other words, all human lives are determined by luck, and this luck is thought to be based on will of heaven. Therefore, he argues that even if human studies the Book of Changes, they cannot grasp will of heaven. In other words, Wang-chong misunderstands the Book of Changes in part but on the other hand, he expresses that the Book of Changes and fortune and misfortune of humans have nothing to do with each other.

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