Living Confucianism: Interpretation of Classics and Thought Practice by Early Modern Japanese Confucians

TIEN, Shih-min

  • PublishedSeptember, 2024
  • Binding精裝 / 21*15 / 328pages / 單色(黑) / 日文
  • Publisher國立臺灣大學出版中心
  • SeriesJapanese Studies Series 37
  • ISBN978-986-350-863-2
  • GPN1011301130
  • Price NT$760
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This book focuses on Confucians who lived mainly in the late early modern Japan, such as Nakai Chikuzan, Nakai Riken, Waki Ranshitsu, Shibano Ritsuzan, and Asaka Gonsai, and examines their interpretation of the classics and their philosophical practice. For these Confucians who studied Neo-Confucianism, interpretation of the classics was not merely an academic task of deciphering the meanings of classics such as the Analects of Confucius and the Book of Songs. Rather, it was a matter of understanding the words of sages and ancient wise men in the context of their own lives and directly connecting them to practice in real life, so that interpretation of the classics and philosophical practice are inextricably linked. In other words, it is scholarship as a life that considers things including changes in one’s temperament and the pursuit of human harmoniousness. It is nothing other than a way of living Confucianism.

Japanese Confucians were determined to pursue scholarship, and they tried to improve themselves and govern others by using the teachings of sages as a guide for life. This is the consciousness of the Confucian way. They ran academic schools and educated their students, thereby passing on awareness of this path to the next generation.

TIEN, Shih-min was born in 1976, Nantou, Taiwan. He graduated from Department of Japanese Language and Culture in Soochow University with bachelor degree, the Graduate Institute for Japanese Studies, Tamkang University with master degree, Graduate school of Education, and Faculty of Education, Kyoto University with Master and Ph. D. degree.

He was an assistant and associate professor of department of Japanese at Tamkang University, visiting researcher of Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University. He is now an associate professor of the Department of Japanese Language and Literature at National Taiwan University.

His primary interests are Japanese culture and intellectual history, comparative of intellectual history in East-Asia.

His publication include Kinsei Nihon ni okeru jurei juyō no kenkyū(2012), Confucian Ritual Practice in Early Modern Japan: Focusing on Practice of the Confucians concerning Zhu X’s Family Rituals in Early Modern Japan(2012), A Study of Nakai Chikuzan's Thought on Shijing and Rituals (2014), and he translated Nihon shisō zenshi which was written by Masayuki Shimizu.

序論
  一、儒者の位置とその主体的意識
  二、儒者の遊学と知的ネットワークの展開
  三、儒学をいかに生きるか
  四、本書の構成
第一章 中井竹山『柬稽』にみる実践的な礼への志向
  はじめに
  一、「書柬式」と『柬稽』との構成
  二、書簡箋と封筒
  三、実践的な礼への志向
  おわりに
第二章 中井履軒の『論語』解釈――履軒『論語逢原』と朱熹『論語集注』の間
  はじめに
  一、『論語逢原』による朱子『集注』諸説への批判
  二、着実平穏な『論語』解釈を追求する履軒
  三、経文と『集注』に対する卑近な比喩を用いての評論
  四、江戸思想史における中井履軒『論語逢原』の位置
  おわりに
第三章 中井履軒の『詩経』解釈――朱熹『詩経』学への批判的継承
  はじめに
  一、履軒による『詩経』篇次の釐正と刪詩
  二、履軒による朱子『詩経』学に対する批判的継承
  おわりに
第四章 脇蘭室の思想-聖賢に学ぶ修己治人の道-
  はじめに
  一、学問のあり方
  二、顔子に学ぶ修己治人の道
  三、脇蘭室の経世論
  おわりに
第五章 脇蘭室の顔子観
  はじめに
  一、挫折を経ての『顔子』編著
  二、脇蘭室『顔子』の構成
  三、脇蘭室の顔子観
  おわりに
第六章 柴野栗山の江戸・京都遊学とその知的ネットワークの展開
  はじめに
  一、柴野栗山の江戸・京都遊学
  二、阿波徳島藩儒・幕儒時代の交遊関係
  三、栗山による「寛政異学の禁」の上書と学政改革
  おわりに
第七章 安積艮斎の学問観とその『詩経』講義
  はじめに
  一、安積艮斎の学問観
  二、『詩経師伝』の内容
  三、『詩経師伝』の特徴
  四、艮斎による『詩経』講義の意義
  おわりに
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