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The Dispute of Confucian Orthodoxy and the Dispute of Political Orthodoxy: an Academic Affair During the Song Dynasty

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  • 2011, (34), pp.159-186
  • Publisher : Institute for Historical Studies at Chung-Ang University
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Tang, Qing-fu 1

1중국 上海师范大学古籍

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ABSTRACT

Confucian orthodoxy is an illusory concept. During the Song Dynasty, the dispute of Confucian orthodoxy was a debate which occurred in internal Confucianism. Actually it contained two contents: the dispute of Political orthodoxy and the dispute of Academic orthodoxy. Generally it begins in Xi Feng period, the debates mainly existed among the Luo school, the Shu school and the Xin school, or it happened between the Luo school and the Shu school; after Yuan You period, the debates among these schools of thought still existed; at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Xin school basically quitted from the stage of debate; although the Shu school had been revived in the early Southern Song Dynasty, lacking worthy successors, so it withdrew from the competition. The dispute of Confucian orthodoxy was on the Academic orthodoxy rather than the Political orthodoxy. The debate between Zhu and Chen and Ye‐Shi’s theory of Confucian orthodoxy were the important parts of Academic orthodoxy in the Southern Song Dynasty. The Prohibition of Parties in Qing Yuan period hit and suppressed the Chen Zhu’s system and other schools of thought, but it wasn’t the dispute of Confucian orthodoxy. After NingZong Jia Ding period, some elites such as Chen‐Hao, Chen‐Yi and Zhu‐Xi restored the reputation, and Chen Zhu’s system had been approved by law in order to be passed down from one generation to another. Thus, the further development of Confucianism had been restrained, and which was bad for its development. The debate between Zhu and Chen and Ye‐Shi’s theory of Confucian orthodoxy had some positive significance in active thinking of that time and promoted the development of Confucianism.

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