Abstract

CHARLES UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF ARTS, DEPARTMENT OF SINOLOGY HISTORY AND CULTURE OF ASIAN AND AFRICAN COUNTRIES DOCTORAL DISSERTATION BETWEEN DAO 道 AND FA 法: INTERTEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE WARRING STATES PERIOD COSMOLOGICAL TEXTS MEZI DAO 道 A FA 法: INTERTEXTUÁLNÍ ANALÝZA KOSMOLOGICKÝCH TEXTŮ Z OBDOBÍ VÁLČÍCÍCH STÁTŮ MGR. BC. KATEŘINA GAJDOŠOVÁ DISSERTATION SUPERVISOR: DOC. LUKÁŠ ZÁDRAPA PHD. YEAR OF SUBMISSION: 2023 ABSTRACT: The cosmologies contained in excavated texts from the Warring States period, such as Taiyi Sheng Shui 太 一生水, Heng Xian 恆先, or Fan Wu Liu Xing 凡物流形, shed new light on the landscape of early Chinese thought. The work seeks to build a coherent argument through which the previously disconnected elements of the texts in question would come together in a logical way. It starts from the reconstruction of the main features of the cosmologies contained in these texts and, on their basis, proposes the reformulation of the basic concepts used in early Chinese texts. Using process philosophy as a conceptual arsenal, the work traces new connections between fundamental ontological concepts in Chinese texts. Building of this newly proposed interpretive framework starts from the exposition of the specific features of early Chinese cosmology, as captured in the texts of the corpus and supported by the...