Shao Yong
Shao Yong ( Chinese 邵雍 , Pinyin Shào Yōng , W.-G. Shao Yung ; posthumous title: Kangjie 康 節 , Kāngjié , Kang-chieh ; born 1011 ; died 1077 ) was a Chinese philosopher , poet , cosmologist and historian of Song Dynasty . He greatly influenced the development of Neo-Confucianism in China.
Shao was one of the most learned men of his time. On the basis of the Book of Changes ( Yijing ) and the Yin-Yang school , Shao Yong developed a fantastic system of symbolism and an extremely speculative cosmology . He avoided taking any government position his entire life. Even so, his influence was hardly less great. Shao's influential treatise is the Huangji jingshi (皇 極 經 世, Book of the Supreme Principles of World Order).
His arrangement of the eight trigrams and 64 hexagrams in the I Ching is known as Xian tian (Former Heaven) and, six centuries later, impressed Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the development of binary arithmetic operations.
literature
- Jürgen Mittelstraß (Ed.): Encyclopedia Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 3: G – Inn . Metzler, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-411-01604-3 , p. 769.
- Wenchao Li, Hans Poser: The latest about China: GW Leibnizens Novissima Sinica from 1697. International Symposium, Berlin, October 4-7, 1997 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 978-3-5150744-8-3 (Studia Leibnitiana / Supplementa; 44)
- Alain Arrault: Shao Yong. Poète et cosmologue . Collège de France, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-85757-061-9 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shao Yong |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shào Kāngjié |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese philosopher, poet, cosmologist and historian of the Song Dynasty |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1011 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1077 |