On Concepts of You and Wu in History of Chinese Philosophy
VÕ VĂN DŨNG
Abstract
Chinese philosophy covers a wide range of content including cosmology, epistemology, and theories of human life, and politics, which have attracted many scholars to conduct research on. In this article, the author discusses "you" (being, existence) and "wu" (nothing, nothingness) - an important pair of categories of important cosmological meaning in Chinese philosophy, expressed mostly in the Taoist thought during the Pre-Qin period, and in the Xuanxue, or the Study of the Mysterious, of the period of Wei and Jin dynasties.