Ito Jinsai's Gomo jigi and the philosophical definition of early modern Japan / by John Allen Tucker
- Bib ID:
- 1982016
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ito, Jinsai, 1627-1705
- Uniform Title:
- Gomo jigi. English
- Description:
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998
- xiv, 282 p. : port. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9004109927 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- Series:
- Brill's Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; v. 7.
- Summary:
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This volume presents the first unabridged translation of Ito Jinsai's (1627-1705) masterwork, the Gomo jigi (Philosophical Lexicography of the Analects and Mencius, 1705), into any western language. The extensively annotated translation opens with a brief textual study of the Gomo jigi and an intellectual biography of Jinsai. While highlighting the Neo-Confucian text, the author suggests that the Gomo jigi espouses a systematic philosophical worldview for chonin, or townspeople, living in the ancient imperial capital, Kyoto, even during an age of ascendant samurai power. Those interested in Chinese and East Asian philosophy will find it enlightening since the topics that Jinsai addresses are also seminal ones in those fields.
- Full contents:
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- The Gomo jigi, Preface
- I. The Way of Heaven
- II. The Decree of Heaven
- III. The Way
- IV. Principle
- V. Virtue
- VI. Humaneness, Rightness, Propriety, Wisdom
- VII. The Mind
- VIII. Human Nature
- IX. The Mind's Four Beginnings
- X. Human Feelings
- XI. Abilities
- XII. Purpose
- XIII. Ideas
- XIV. Moral Intuition and Abilities
- XV. Loyalty and Trustworthiness
- XVI. Loyalty and Empathy
- XVII. Sincerity
- XVIII. Reverence
- XIX. Honesty and Harmony
- XX. Learning
- XXI. Expediency
- XXII. Sages and Worthies
- XXIII. Refined People and Commoners
- XXIV. True Kings and Hegemons
- XXV. Ghosts and Spirits
- XXVI. The Book of Poetry
- XXVII. The Book of History
- XXVIII. The Book of Changes
- XXIX. The Spring and Autumn Annals
- XXX. On the Four Classics
- App. A. The Great Learning is Not a Confucian Text
- App. B. The Revival of Heterodoxies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-270) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Tucker, John Allen
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1998
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