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The modern political consciousness of Japan cannot be understood without reference to the history of the Tokugawa period, the era between 1600 and 1868 that preceded Japan's modern transformation. Tetsuo Najita introduces the ideas of the leading political thinker of the period, Ogyu Sorai (1666-1728), a pivotal figure in laying the conceptual foundations of Japan's modernization. His basic thoughts about history and the ethical purposes of politics are presented, revealing the richness of the philosophical legacy of eighteenth-century Japan, a legacy which cannot be seen through the perspective of 'westernization'. His ideas reveal a vision of human diversity and individual virtue which can be viewed in comparative perspective, as well as an insight into the history and politics of Japan. The texts are accompanied by a chronology of Sorai's life, a glossary, a guide to persons mentioned in the text, and a guide to further reading, as well as Professor Najita's introduction, which puts Sorai's work into philosophical and historical context.

Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Ogyū, Sorai, --- Sorai, Ogyū --- Butsu, Mokei, --- Disheng, Culai, --- Monobe, Mokei, --- Ogyū, Mokei, --- Ogyū, Nabematsu, --- Akagi-ō, --- Ken'en, --- Yōan, --- 荻生徂徠, --- 荻生徂徕, --- 荻生徂來, --- 荻生徂来,

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This book contains short analyses (kaidai) of Ogyu Sorai’s (1666-1728) most important works, as well as a biography and a number of essays. The essays explore various aspects of his teachings, of the origins of his thought, and of the reception of his ideas in Japan, China, and Korea before and after "modernization" struck in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ogyu Sorai has come to be considered the pivotal thinker in the intellectual history of Early Modern Japan. More research has been done on Sorai than on any other Confucian thinker of this period. This book disentangles the modern reception from the way in which Sorai's ideas were understood and evaluated in Japan and China in the century following his death. The joint conclusion of the research of a number of the foremost specialists in Japan, Taiwan, and the West is that Sorai was and remains an original, innovative, and important thinker, but that his position within East-Asian thought should be redefined in terms of the East-Asian tradition to which he belonged, and not in the paradigms of European History of Philosophy or Intellectual History. The book represents up-to-date scholarship and allows both the young scholar to acquaint himself with Sorai, and the intellectual historian to compare Sorai with other thinkers of other times and of other philosophical traditions.

Ogyū, Sorai, --- Butsu, Mokei, --- Disheng, Culai, --- Monobe, Mokei, --- Ogyū, Mokei, --- Ogyū, Nabematsu, --- Akagi-ō, --- Ken'en, --- Yōan, --- 荻生徂徠, --- 荻生徂徕, --- 荻生徂來, --- 荻生徂来, --- Philosophy, Asian. --- Religion—History. --- Political philosophy. --- Non-Western Philosophy. --- History of Religion. --- Political Philosophy. --- Political philosophy --- Asian philosophy --- Oriental philosophy --- Philosophy, Oriental --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Religion --- Political science --- Philosophical Traditions. --- Religious history --- Modern philosophy --- History. --- Philosophy.

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Confucianism --- Confucianisme --- Sorai, Ogyû --- Political culture --- Japan --- Rites and ceremonies --- Politics and government --- 1600-1868 --- Philosophy --- Political science --- Philosophy, Confucian --- J4610 --- J4600.60 --- J1440 --- J1560 --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Political aspects --- History --- Japan: Politics and law -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Politics and law -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Philosophy -- Confucianism --- Japan: Philosophy -- individual philosophers -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Ogyū, Sorai --- Sorai, Ogyū --- Butsu, Mokei, --- Disheng, Culai, --- Monobe, Mokei, --- Ogyū, Mokei, --- Ogyū, Nabematsu, --- Akagi-ō, --- Ken'en, --- Yōan, --- 荻生徂徠, --- 荻生徂徕, --- 荻生徂來, --- 荻生徂来, --- Political and social views.