2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The study of educational thought in Kaitokudo school - integration with the study of Confucianism thought and administration thought -

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23520060
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Chinese philosophy
Research Institution	Anan National College of Technology
Principal Investigator	FUJII taketo 阿南工業高等専門学校, 一般教科, 教授 (80228949)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	懐徳堂 / 儒者 / 中井竹山 / 中井履軒
Research Abstract	In this study, I analyzed the educational thought in Kaitokudo School. To be exact, I analyzed the aspect that the study of Confucianism thought as the philosophy of Kaitokudo School reflects the education thought as part of the administration thought to be related to real world, and I proved that Kaitokudo Confucians basically regard both morality and politics as important. Particularly, I made clear that Kaitokudo Confucians thought about the relation between morals and politics is not the course from "discipline myself" toward "rule persons" but the unification of both of them (this unification is based on high level "self" provided by sublating both of them). On Confucianism thought history of Japanese early modern times, the historical significance of Kaitokudo School is that they brought up the concept of high level "self".

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