This presentation first gives an overview of scholarship speculating on Heguanzi as a person and as a book. Then it turns to its textual complexities and its generally considered Daoist content. Finally it moves towards what I would identify as the specific nexus of ideas that characterize the Pheasant Cap Master’s thought: the vicissitudes of political ambition and frustration, the veneration of the One and its relation to multiplicity, and the nature of Heaven’s order and transcendence.
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Defoort, C. (2015). “Pheasant Cap Master.” In Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy (Vol. 6, pp. 281–305). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2927-0_12
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