| dc.description.abstract | The main theme of this thesis is about the changing direction of the way of annotation in Kuo Hsiangh’s Annotation of Chuang-Tzu, which will be illustrated by the discussion of the topical content of Annotation of Chuang-Tzu, the Theory of Self Cultivation, the Theory of States and the way of annotation of the book.; meantime, by discussing the above four dimensions, the objective of Kuo Hsiangh’s Annotation of Chuang-Tzu will be pointed out as to demonstrate the ideal sublime of Taoism Politics.
Firstly, the topical content of Kuo Hsiangh’s Annotation of Chuang-Tzu, which can be divided into the Theory of Xin Fen, the Theory of Xiao Yao, the Theory of External and Internal Harmony, the Theory of Chi Wu, Self Creation and the Confucian Teachings of Ethic Asserted these six parts, is annotated based on the Theory of Xin Fen, and is designed to reach the final goal of demonstrating the ideal of Taoism Politics. Secondly, in the perspective of the Theory of Self Cultivation, the content of self cultivation in the book focuses on two dimensions: “complying with Xin Fen” and “complying with all objects”. They actively construct a form of the smoothness of the complying among the whole creation, which aims at causing the whole creation to perform self cultivation and practice each one’s own Xin Fen, in order to achieve the ideal of Taoism Politics. Thirdly, in the view of the Theory of States, it is thus evident that both sacred people and ordinary people can embody the highest state of life through self cultivation; and meanwhile, the ideal of Taoism Politics can be perceived. With the belief that both sacred people and ordinary people can perform self cultivation by their own, one can see the possibility of Round Teaching and the perfection of its philosophical system. Lastly, from the perspective of way of annotation, one can see Kuo Hsiangh’s devotion to the book and his aim of demonstrating the ideal sublime of Taoism Politics systematically. Thus, it is clearly shown that, from whichever angles, the way of annotation in Kuo Hsiangh’s Annotation of Chung-Tzu has changed its direction and focus from the highest value in Chung-Tzu—one’s “inward-cultivation”, to the issue of “outward-governance” of groups.
From the changing direction of the way of annotation in Kuo Hsiangh’s Annotation of Chuang-Tzu, it is thus evident that, in addition to inheriting the philosophy of Chuang-Tzu and other Taoism philosophy, Annotation of Chuang-Tzu has made further improvement in terms of philosophical cultivation, and has further carried out the specific content of the idea of “Inward-cultivation” and “outward-governance” from Chuang-Tzu.
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