1994 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study on 'Nature' in the Japanese Modern Times from a Viewpoint of the Ethical Thought History
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05610036
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
倫理学
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
KANNO Kakumyou The University of Tokyo. Faculty of letters. Associate-Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (70186170)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
THOYAMA Atsushi The University of Tokyo. Faculty of letters. Assistannt, 文学部, 助手 (70212066)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1993 – 1994
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| Keywords | Nature / Self / Transcedent feature of nature / Kinsei Confucianist view of nature / Japanese studies' view of nature / Chu-tzu's doctrines'view of nature / Nature in Haikai / Modern view of nature |
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| Research Abstract |
This study's goal is to elucidate how the transcendent caharateristics of Japanese idea of 'nature' continued and changed during the kinsei period (the Azuchi-momoyama era through the Edo) . In the course of this research, we gave attention to a tremendous influence of Chu-tzu's doctorines over the forming of Japanese idea of 'nature' in that period. In the traditional history of thought the doctorines of Chu-tzu have been regarded as a leading idea of Tokugawa goverment or a negative idea against a so-called 'Japanese Confucianism' and conventional Japanese studies. In other words, they have been confined in the specific arguments of Confucianism and their characteristic was regarded as a representative of anti-Japanese or non-Japanese thoght. But the fact that haiku, a characteristic literary form in the kinsei period, had a immediate connection with the researching concept of Chu-tzu's doctrines and its derivative studies of natural history (botany and study of name), and that a variety of thoughts in the kinsei period derived their world views from a Chu-tzu's doctrine of 'katsu-butsu' shaows this Chinese thought as a base of the world view made up firmly a so-called 'common sense' in the kinsei era not only as an idea of administration and morality in a narrow sense but as a base of the world view. The results of this research are as follows :
1. The doctrines of Chu-tzu consider the world of human morality and the order of natureto be a continuity under the notion of 'ichi-ri' (one reason) . We have elucidated how this thought was accepted and understood by the most authentic introducer Ansai School. An article about Naotaka Satoh's dogaku is a result of this approach.
2. In addition, we have showed that Chu-tzu's view of nature was a base of the world view in the kinsei period which regard humankind as the lord of all creation. An article about Baian Ishida is a result of it.
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