Yang
(a) The active, male cosmic principle or force. Seeyin yang.
(b) The school of Yang Chu (c 440 – c 360 B.C.) and his followers, whose main doctrines are neither hedonism as Lieh Tzu seerns to represent him, nor egoism as Mencius interpreted him, but rather the Taoist doctrines of following nature, of “preserving life and keeping the essence of our being intact and not injuring our material existence with things,” of “letting life run its course freely,” and of “ignoring not only riches and fame but also life and death.” — W.T.C.