20.500.12556/RUL-178286 Nothingness of Dao in the Daodejing A Mereological Interpretation Ničnost Dao v Daodejing mereološka interpretacija This article is based on my mereological reconstruction of the Daoist metaphysical system, as presented in the Daodejing. I conceptualize the Dao and you relationship as a relationship between Unrestricted Composition (for any entities, there is a composition that they make) and Restricted Composition (what is an entity is determined by finite composition rules) respectively. This conceptualization, among other things, makes it possible to address the way in which Dao is described as wu—nothingness or non-being. In this article, I will show that Dao as the ultimate reality in Daoist metaphysics is not an ontological nothingness and discuss how this “nothingness characteristic” can be mereologically reconstructed and explained. I will discuss the interpretation of Dao in terms of Mereological Nihilism (according to which there are only mereological simples that do not have parts and are not parts of any complex entities), Unrestricted Composition, and consider an option in which mereology is confined exclusively to relationships between parts. I will also discuss how the nothingness aspect of Dao can be viewed from a stuff ontology perspective, which questions the ontological standing of parts. Ta članek temelji na moji mereološki rekonstrukciji daoističnega metafizičnega siste-ma, kot je predstavljen v Daodejing. Razmerje med Dao in you pojmujem kot razmerje med neomejeno sestavo (za vse entitete obstaja sestava, ki jo tvorijo) in omejeno sesta-vo (kaj je entiteta, določajo končna pravila sestave). Ta konceptualizacija med drugim omogoča obravnavo načina, na katerega je Dao opisan kot wu – ničnost ali nebivanje. V svoji predstavitvi pokažem, da Dao kot končna realnost v daoistični metafiziki ni ontološka ničnost, ter razpravljam o tem, kako je mogoče to »značilnost ničnosti« mereološko rekonstruirati in pojasniti. Obravnavam interpretacijo Dao v smislu mere-ološkega nihilizma (po katerem obstajajo le mereološke enostavne entitete, ki nimajo delov in niso deli nobenih kompleksnih entitet), neomejene sestave, in razmišljam o možnosti, da je mereologija omejena izključno na odnose med deli. Obravnavam tudi, kako je mogoče videti ničnost Dao s perspektive ontologije snovi, ki postavlja pod vprašaj ontološki status delov. nothingness mereology Daoist metaphysics Chinese metaphysics ničnost mereologija daoistična metafizika kitajska metafizika true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-01-22 13:18:08 2026-01-22 13:18:09 2026-01-27 11:39:44 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0 0 0 Str. 137-151 no. 3 Vol. 13 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-09-01 2232-5131 2350-4226 https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2025.13.3.137-151 RAZ_Banka_Rafal_0.pdf RAZ_Banka_Rafal_0.pdf 1 A475BAB056E88226BCB008E502FAF4B2 fa8e5a691c45ba96d1d359c157bec72ee9966f7501381e76b669c91ca989d337 e99ccf73-f78c-11f0-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=225997 https://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/20712 0 7a188672-fb6c-11f0-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=226241 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0