Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy by Chun-chieh Huang & John Allen Tucker

Author:Chun-chieh Huang & John Allen Tucker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

12His disenchanted metaphysics was certainly not accompanied by the enthusiasm that the disappearance of the old cosmology provoked in the first modern European minds – Giordano Bruno or Bacon.

13Seiryō, however, accepts the concept of rituals as pattern of behavior to control the heart and he repeats one of Sorai’s arguments about this (Kaiho, Sūmitsu dan 1976e: 155).

14In fact some may be surprised by the inclusion of Kaiho Seiryō in a work on Confucian authors. Seiryō, however, never criticizes Confucius. Quite the contrary, he quotes him often, and abundantly uses his sayings to justify his positions – even if he typically read them in very novel ways. In fact the reason for including him in a study of Confucian thinking lies precisely here: he shows us how far the Confucian vocabulary and texts could be stretched, used, and abused. But even though Seiryō introduces himself as a Confucian scholar, a jusha, (Kaiho, Keiko dan 1976a: 314), it must be admitted that he turns upside down the traditional Confucian wisdom.

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