Wang Chung

Wang Ch’ung

Born A.D. 27; died A.D. 104. Chinese philosophical materialist and atheist; author of the book Critical Dissertations (Lung Heng).

All that exists, according to Wang Ch’ung, is formed from material substance, that is, “primary ether” (yuan tzu), and the differences between all things originate in the different degrees of density of this substance within them. He struggled against a theological world view, developing the positions of Hsiin-tzu and the ancient Taoists that the way of heaven (tao) does not have a goal and is characterized by spontaneity. He rejected the idea of a heavenly ruler and of spirits in general. In the sphere of social and ethical thought, Wang Ch’ung was a fatalist, linking the position of men in society, rich or poor, noble or common, with the density of the ether received by the man at birth.

REFERENCES

Petrov, A. A. Van Chun—drevnekitaiskii materialist i prosvetitel’. Moscow, 1954.
Hou Wai-lu [et al,] Chung-kuo s su hsiang t’ung shih (History of Chinese Ideologies). Peking, 1957. Pages 248-312.
Fung Yu-lan. A History of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 1. Princeton, 1953. Pages 150-67.

单词	wang chung
释义	Wang Chung Wang Ch’ung Born A.D. 27; died A.D. 104. Chinese philosophical materialist and atheist; author of the book Critical Dissertations (Lung Heng). All that exists, according to Wang Ch’ung, is formed from material substance, that is, “primary ether” (yuan tzu), and the differences between all things originate in the different degrees of density of this substance within them. He struggled against a theological world view, developing the positions of Hsiin-tzu and the ancient Taoists that the way of heaven (tao) does not have a goal and is characterized by spontaneity. He rejected the idea of a heavenly ruler and of spirits in general. In the sphere of social and ethical thought, Wang Ch’ung was a fatalist, linking the position of men in society, rich or poor, noble or common, with the density of the ether received by the man at birth. REFERENCES Petrov, A. A. Van Chun—drevnekitaiskii materialist i prosvetitel’. Moscow, 1954. Hou Wai-lu [et al,] Chung-kuo s su hsiang t’ung shih (History of Chinese Ideologies). Peking, 1957. Pages 248-312. Fung Yu-lan. A History of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 1. Princeton, 1953. Pages 150-67.
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