Itô Jinsai’s Kogigaku and Radicalism

Title

Itô Jinsai’s Kogigaku and Radicalism

Author

Koyasu Nobukuni

Page

133-144

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Abstract

　　The study of Itô Jinsai’s Kogigaku is meant to interpret Confucian texts from the reading of Analects. This way of interpretation is a revolution against the approaches of Chu Xi’s Neo-Confucianism and a return to the Confucian canons. In this way, the Analects serves as a new criterion for criticism so that Confucian canons could be ap- proached from textual and philosophical perspectives. This article discusses in what way Jinsai rediscovers the Analects and how he interprets them.
　　Soraigaku is opposed to Jinsaigaku. Through a comparison of Jinsaigaku and Soraigaku, this article will clarify the radicalism of Jinsaigaku in terms of its textual and philosophical perspectives.

Keyword

Itô Jinsai, Kogigaku, Tokugawa Sinology, Ogyû Sorai, Analects, radicalism

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