Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 3(4), pp. 207 - 217
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2015.030401
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Modern World Needs Laozi´s Wisdom about the Substance of Being and Living in Harmony with Nature

Maria Ferancova-(Marina Carnogurská) ^*
Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic

ABSTRACT

Although Christianity remains even today the major ideological backbone of our Western civilization with its common belief that the Nature on Earth is only a terrestrial environment given to us by a transcendent God-Creator for our everyday use and living needs, other world civilizations (especially the Chinese, which has managed to define and record its original world-view heritage already 3,000 years ago) offer to us some different explanations and viewpoints. Thus in Chinese philosophical heritage we can learn from Laozi´s ontological teaching that the Universe (or Multiverse) was not created by any transcendent God from an absolute vacuum (or "Nothing"), as in ancient Chinese original worldview there never existed any absolute vacuum (or a real "Nothing"). In Laozi´s as well as the primeval Chinese interpretations, the Universe has not originated from a singularity set by a transcendent God from within an absolute vacuum, where by his divine intervention he subsequently created its consequential multi-variety, but in accordance with Laozi´s ontological theory Universe (or Multiverse) was and is forever because of its basic substrate of yin-yang Energy (De), which is moveable thanks to its bipolar positively-negatively everlastingly polarized medium. Thanks to it, the Universe (or Multiverse) was and will be forever in its interchangeable dialectical movements continually creating by its multidimensional tensions a wonderful variability of its opposites. In our three-dimensional time-space (which is with our whole Cosmos an inner subset of it, too), the "metaphysical" and "physical", "spiritual" and "material" also are in every case only yin-yang (negatively-positively) interchangeable cyclical and transitional states and the reactions, creations and extinctions of its infinitely and eternally never-ending Unity, which can never be a static singularity! In such conditions also our Earth and the Human world (as one of the inner parts of Universe) ought to live in accordance with these natural laws of the basic Energy (De), and everything here is "governed" (according to Laozi´s metaphysical interpretation) by its anonymous inner powers, and thus not by any subjective First Mover (or in our sense a God). Therefore, also our Human race is obliged to live and behave in a harmonious coordination with natural principles and regularity, common to this whole anonymous process of transformations in the endless circulation of Universe (or Multiverse).

KEYWORDS
Laozi, Fundamental Energy De, Cyclic, Metaphysical - Material Coexistence

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[1] Maria Ferancova-(Marina Carnogurská) , "Modern World Needs Laozi´s Wisdom about the Substance of Being and Living in Harmony with Nature," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 207 - 217, 2015. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2015.030401.

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Maria Ferancova-(Marina Carnogurská) (2015). Modern World Needs Laozi´s Wisdom about the Substance of Being and Living in Harmony with Nature. Sociology and Anthropology, 3(4), 207 - 217. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2015.030401.