School of Energy qi 氣: Zhang Zai

I shall explore, in this chapter, the Neo-Confucian school of Qi, established by Zhang Zai 張載 (1020–1077), and show how everything can be considered as an implication or explication of energy, that I take provisionally as a conventional translation of qi 氣 (cf. above, 2.4 ) and that is both physical and mental, and entails both other- and self-relation. I shall resonate this conception with Arthur Schopenhauer’s (1788–1860) Will: everything is an implication or explication of Will.