Yang Quan

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Yang Quan ( Chinese  楊泉  /  杨泉 , W.-G. Yang Ch`üan ; dates unknown), zi : Deyuan德 渊, was a Chinese philosopher and atheist at the time of the Western Jin Dynasty (265-316). Yang came from what is now Shangqiu in Henan Province . He spent most of his life studying astronomy, geography, calendar, agronomy, medicine, and philosophy. He is the author of the essay Wuli lun ( 物 理論  /  物 理论 "On the nature of things"). Yang claimed in the work that it is water that establishes heaven and earth (立lì ), and qì (气) the substance that forms heaven and earth and everything else in the universe. He excluded the existence of gods or spirits in his thinking. All in all, Yang was a philosopher of ancient naive materialism . For the term cf. 古代 朴素 唯物主义; engl. ancient naive materialism .

Fonts

  • Wuli lun ( 物 理論  /  物 理论 )

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Wulilun 物 理論 "On the Order of Things" - chinaknowledge.de
  2. ↑ In Hanyu da zidian , the edition of the Pingjinguan congshu published by Sun Xingyan was used.
  3. ↑ On the qi theory in ancient China, cf. Hu Chang-Wei: Vacuum, Space-Time, Matter and the Models of Smarandache Geometry. 2012, p. 27 ff. *
  4. ↑ cf. the article: "Yang Quan", in: Han-Ying Zhongguo zhexue cidian. Kaifeng 2002, p. 356

literature

  • 汉英 中国 哲学 辞典. 开封 2002
  • Zhongguo wushenlun shi ( 中国 无神论 史 , Zhōngguó wúshénlùn shǐ ) in: Dangdai Zhongguo xuezhe daibiaozuo wenku 当代 中国 学者 代表作 文库 . Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe 中国 社会 科学 出版社, 2011, ISBN 978-7-5004-0756-0 (2 vols.)

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personal data
SURNAME Yang, Quan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 杨泉; 楊泉
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese philosopher and atheist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century or 3rd century
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century or 4th century