Lecture 05 Cosmology and Ethics II: Zhang Zai (張載, 1020-1077)

The Great Harmony, the Great Void, and the material force
- The problem of Buddhist redistribution theory and the Daoist naturalism
- The solution
- The cosmology of qi (氣 material force, material energy, vapor, mist, air)
Human nature as the foundation for human beings to communicate with the cosmos
- The foundation beyond death and life
- The unity through a cosmological construction
Expanding one's mind beyond the limitation of sensual organs
- The free status of qi
- The qi of man
- Knowledge goes beyond ears and eys
- The unstoppable mind (xin 心)
Lining up the cosmological, the individual, the familial and the political order: the "Western Inscription"
- The analogy of family
- The politics
- The individual
The integration through governmental intervention: the New Policies promoted by Wang Anshi (王安石, 1021-1985)

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