On Concepts of You and Wu in History of Chinese Philosophy

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.