From nothingness to nothing Guō Xiàng’s nominalist reduction of the ontological performativity of wú 無 Od ničnosti do niča Guo Xiangova nominalistična redukcija ontološke performativnosti wu 無 It is well-known that the Daoist tradition conceives the world as emerging from an unfathomable first principle called Dào 道 or wú 無. Early medieval thinkers and commentators such as Hé Yàn 何晏 and Wáng Bì 王弼 played a key role in the elaboration of this tenet. However, their views were challenged at an early date, especially by Guō Xiàng’s 郭象 influential reading of the Zhuāngzĭ 莊子. Moreover, since the early 20th century, scholars have stressed the originality of Guō Xiàng’s rejection of the onto-generative power of the Dào. However, even in recent scholarship, readers tend to refer to a selected set of passages from the Zhuāngzĭ Zhù 莊子注, and to focus mostly on doctrinal statements. By contrast, this study aims at exploring the exegetical and argumentative strategies by which Guō Xiàng establishes his understanding of Dào and wú. I intend to show that Guō Xiàng’s rejection is based on a reduction of the meaning of wú to its verbal use, and on what I will describe as a nominalist attitude in the Zhuāngzĭ Zhù. By doing so, this study shall provide new insights into Guō Xiàng’s worldview, and the ways in which he construes his core tenet, namely the idea that all the myriad things are self-so (zìrán 自然), self-generated (zìshēng 自生), and lone transforming (dúhuà 獨化). Dobro je znano, da po pojmovanju daoistične tradicije svet izhaja iz nepojmljivega prvotnega načela, imenovanega dao 道 ali wu 無. Zgodnjesrednjeveški misleci in komentatorji, kot sta He Yan 何晏 in Wang Bi 王弼, so imeli ključno vlogo pri izoblikovanju tega načela, vendar so bila njihova stališča zgodaj postavljena pod vprašaj, zlasti zaradi vplivnega branja dela Zhuangzi 莊子, ki ga je podal Guo Xiang 郭象. Poleg tega so učenjakinje in učenjaki od začetka 20. stoletja poudarjali izvirnost Guo Xiangove zavrnitve ontogenerativne moči daota. Vendar se tudi v sodobnih raziskavah bralci in bralke običajno sklicujejo na izbrani niz odlomkov iz dela Zhuangzi Zhu 莊子注 ter se osredotočajo predvsem na doktrinarne izjave. Ta študija pa si, nasprotno, prizadeva raziskati eksegetične in argumentativne strategije, s katerimi je Guo Xiang oblikoval svoje razumevanje konceptov dao in wu. Namen članka je pokazati, da Guo Xiangova zavrnitev temelji na redukciji pomena wu na njegov glagolski pomen in na tistem, kar avtor članka opiše kot nominalistična drža v delu Zhuangzi Zhu. S tem bo ta študija ponudila nove razumevanja Guo Xiangovega pogleda na svet in načine, s katerimi je oblikoval svoje osrednje načelo – namreč idejo, da so vse obstoječe entitete ziran 自然 (samonikle), zisheng 自生 (samogenerirane) in duhua 獨化 (samopreobražajoče). Guō Xiàng 郭象 Xuánxué 玄學 (Dark Learning) Wú 無 Dào 道 Zhuāngzĭ Zhù 莊子注 (Commentary on the Zhuāngzĭ) Guo Xiang 郭象 xuanxue玄學 wú 無 dào 道 Zhuāngzĭ Zhù 莊子注 (Komentarji k delu Zhuangzi) true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-10-29 14:43:23 2026-11-05 13:41:58 2026-11-06 04:29:12 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 Str. 109-136 no. 2 Vol. 13 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2232-5131 10.4312/as.2025.13.2.109-136 7+Raphaël+VAN+DAELE.pdf 7+Raphaël+VAN+DAELE.pdf 1 44389B0D6A899270A2D7EAFD89BD009F a8b0734e7cbeaae0245fb8882048c9efafb84ea380c08fd3865254a19c681003 b25391ff-d39e-11f1-aea2-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=251998 http://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/20023 0 af3f0e62-d39e-11f1-aea2-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=251997 Filozofska fakulteta Asian studies 0 0 0