Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy (Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy Book 5)

The __Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy__ will be part of the handbook series __Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy__, published by Springer. This series is being edited by Professor Huang Yong, Professor of Philosophy at Kutztown University and Editor of __Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy__. This volume includes original essays by scholars from the U.S., Europe, Japan, and China, discussing important philosophical writings by Japanese Confucian philosophers. The main focus, historically, will be the early-modern period (1600-1868), when much original Confucian philosophizing occurred, and Confucianism in modern Japan. The __Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy__ makes a significant contribution to the Dao handbook series, and equally to the field of Japanese philosophy. This new volume including original philosophical studies will be a major contribution to the study of Confucianism generally and Japanese philosophy in particular. Contents......Page 6 Contributors......Page 8 1.1 About the Anthology......Page 13 1.2 Defining Philosophy and Understanding Tetsugaku......Page 16 1.3 Inoue Tetsujirō and the Study of Japanese Confucian Philosophy......Page 18 1.4 Beginnings: Defining Terms and Defining Politics......Page 22 1.5 Discussions of the Spiritual......Page 23 1.6 Exploring the Borders......Page 25 1.7 The Body......Page 26 1.8 Ogyū Sorai......Page 27 1.9 Whence Modernity?......Page 28 1.10 The Nature......Page 29 1.11 Doubters, Critics, and Common Ground......Page 30 1.13 Meiji Divination......Page 34 1.14 Maruyama Masao on Yamazaki Ansai......Page 35 1.15 Back to the Tokugawa......Page 37 References......Page 38 2.1 Introduction......Page 43 2.2 Zhu Xi, Beixi, and Song Neo-Confucianism......Page 45 2.3 Sekigo’s Confucianism as Political Philosophy......Page 47 2.4 Matsunaga Sekigo and the Historiography of Japanese Confucianism......Page 48 2.5 Sekigo’s Ethics and Medieval Syncretism......Page 51 2.6 Sekigo’s Ethics and Beixi’s The Meanings of Terms......Page 53 2.7 Sekigo’s Ethics on the Three Bonds and Five Constants......Page 55 2.8 Human Nature, the Mind, and Feelings......Page 61 2.9 Sincerity and Seriousness......Page 66 2.10 Marriage: The Roles of Men and Women......Page 68 2.11 Metaphysics and Spirituality......Page 69 2.12 Sekigo’s Postscript......Page 75 2.13 Concluding Remarks......Page 77 References......Page 79 3.1 Introduction......Page 81 3.2 Kien and Sorai: Lexical Works......Page 85 3.3 Arai Hakuseki’s “On Spirits” (Kishin ron)......Page 92 3.4 Confrontation with Shintō: Hayashi Razan......Page 103 3.5 Confrontation with Shintō: Aizawa Seishisai......Page 110 3.6 Popular Reflections: The Heavenly Way......Page 113 3.7 Conclusions......Page 116 References......Page 118 4.1 Introduction......Page 121 4.2 Background: The Ryukyu Kingdom......Page 123 4.3 Sai On’s Vision, Part 1: Confucian Social Engineering......Page 128 4.4 Sai On’s Vision, Part 2: Making Destiny......Page 130 4.5 Sai On’s Vision, Part 3: Size Does Not Matter......Page 133 4.6 Battling the Demon of the Mind......Page 134 4.7 The Delicate Balancing Act of Governing......Page 140 4.8 Conclusions......Page 148 Primary Sources......Page 149 Secondary Sources......Page 150 5.1 Introduction......Page 153 5.1.1.1 The Pre-manifest Emphasis of Zhu Xi Learning—From the Mind to the Body......Page 154 5.1.1.2 Kaibara Ekken’s Mind-Body Theory—From the Body to the Mind......Page 158 5.1.2.1 Imitation and Habit-Formation—Education “in Advance”......Page 161 5.1.2.2 The Role of the Body in Learning to Write......Page 164 5.1.2.3 The Body in Learning through “Plain Reading”......Page 165 5.1.3 Ritual and Etiquette—The Regularization of the Body......Page 168 5.1.4 The Surfacing of Physicality in Ekken’s Thought......Page 170 References......Page 174 6.1 Introduction......Page 176 6.2 Report of the Elegant Emissaries......Page 179 6.3 Discourse on Government......Page 182 6.4 Impoverishment......Page 185 6.5 Ranks and Titles......Page 189 6.6 Conclusion......Page 192 References......Page 193 7.1 Introduction......Page 194 7.2 The Notion of Modern Political Theories......Page 195 7.3 Sorai’s Metaphysics......Page 199 7.4 Sorai’s Two Perspectives on the Way......Page 204 7.5 Seiryō’s Metaphysics......Page 207 7.6 Seiryō’s Theory of Knowledge......Page 209 7.7 Seiryō’s Moral Psychology......Page 212 7.8 Seiryō’s View of Society......Page 214 7.9 What Was Modern?......Page 216 7.10 Sociology of Ideas......Page 219 References......Page 222 Chapter 8: Human Nature and the Way in the Philosophy of Dazai Shundai......Page 226 8.1 Shundai on Human Nature......Page 228 8.2 Shundai’s Reading of the Four Beginnings......Page 232 8.3 Shundai on External Compliance and Internal Transformation......Page 236 8.4 Non-action and the Limits of Sagely Government......Page 239 8.5 Conclusion......Page 241 References......Page 242 9.1 Introduction......Page 244 9.2 Japanese Studies and Confucianism in the Seventeenth-Century......Page 245 9.3 Keichū and Kada no Azumamaro......Page 248 9.4 Kamo no Mabuchi......Page 252 9.5 Motoori Norinaga......Page 256 9.6 Hirata Atsutane......Page 259 9.7 The Mito Convergence and Modern Denouement......Page 264 References......Page 266 10.1 Introduction......Page 268 References......Page 285 11.1 Mishima Yukio and the Apotheosis of Ōshio Chūsai......Page 287 11.2 The Learning of the Cave of Mind-Cleansing (Senshindō)......Page 290 11.3 Chūsai’s Philosophy and the Book of Changes......Page 296 11.4 Chūsai’s Letter to Satō Issai......Page 298 11.5 Chūsai’s “Three Great Accomplishments”......Page 307 11.6 The Problem of Chūsai’s Ancestry......Page 314 11.7 The Culmination......Page 319 References......Page 322 12.1 Introduction......Page 325 12.2 Takashima in the History of Book of Changes Divination......Page 327 12.3 The Book of Changes’ Oracles and Meiji Ideology......Page 329 12.4 The Book of Changes’ Oracle and Meiji Warfare......Page 334 12.5 Concluding Remarks......Page 338 References......Page 339 Chapter 13: “Orthodoxy” and “Legitimacy” in the Yamazaki Ansai School......Page 341 13.1 The Continuity and Distinctiveness of the Kimon School......Page 349 13.2 Tensions and Rifts Within the School......Page 358 13.3 Doctrinal Orthodoxy vs. Political Legitimacy......Page 366 13.4 The Universality of the Way vs. the Particularity of Japan......Page 371 13.5 The Coincidentia Oppositorum......Page 388 13.6 The Moral Duty Between Ruler and Minister......Page 397 13.7 “Inheriting Heaven and Establishing the Pole”......Page 405 13.8 Conclusion......Page 416 References......Page 417 14.1 A Perspective on the Ansai School......Page 421 14.2 Zhu Xi and Zhu Xi-ism......Page 425 14.3 The Ansai School and the “My-Country-ist” (Jikokushugi 自国主義) Discourse......Page 427 14.4 Universal Versus Particular......Page 429 References......Page 431 Index......Page 433 This volume features in-depth philosophical analyses of major Japanese Confucian philosophers as well as themes and topics addressed in their writings. Its main historical focus is the early-modern period (1600-1868), when much original Confucian philosophizing occurred. Written by scholars from the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, and China and eclectic in methodology and disciplinary approach, this anthology seeks to advance new multidimensional studies of Japanese Confucian philosophy for English language readers. It presents essays that focus on Japanese Confucianism, while including topics related to Buddhism, Shintō, Nativism, and even Andō Shōeki 安藤昌益 (1703-1762), one of the most vehement critics of Confucianism in all of East Asia. The book builds on the premise that Japanese Confucian philosophy consists in the ongoing engagement in critical, self-reflective discussions of and speculative theorizing about ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, political theory, and spiritual problems, as well as aesthetics, cosmology, and ontology This volume features in-depth philosophical analyses of major Japanese Confucian philosophers as well as themes and topics addressed in their writings. Its main historical focus is the early-modern period (1600-1868), when much original Confucian philosophizing occurred. Written by scholars from the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, and China and eclectic in methodology and disciplinary approach, this anthology seeks to advance new multidimensional studies of Japanese Confucian philosophy for English language readers. It presents essays that focus on Japanese Confucianism, while including topics related to Buddhism, Shinto, Nativism, and even Ando Shoeki (1703-1762), one of the most vehement critics of Confucianism in all of East Asia. The book builds on the premise that Japanese Confucian philosophy consists in the ongoing engagement in critical, self-reflective discussions of and speculative theorizing about ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, political theory, and spiritual problems, as well as aesthetics, cosmology, and ontology Annotation The Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy will be part of the handbook series Dao Companion to Chinese Philosophy, published by Springer. This series is being edited by Professor Huang Yong, Professor of Philosophy at Kutztown University and Editor of Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy. This volume includes original essays by scholars from the U.S., Europe, Japan, and China, discussing important philosophical writings by Japanese Confucian philosophers. The main focus, historically, will be the early-modern period (1600-1868), when much original Confucian philosophizing occurred, and Confucianism in modern Japan. The Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy makes a significant contribution to the Dao handbook series, and equally to the field of Japanese philosophy. This new volume including original philosophical studies will be a major contribution to the study of Confucianism generally and Japanese philosophy in particular