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@article{ART002564498},
author={YEUM SUNG JUN},
title={A Study Critiquing the Status in the History of Philosophy concerning Matteo Ricci’s Views of the ‘Tianxue (天學) in the East Asia’},
journal={Religions of Korea},
issn={1738-3617},
year={2020},
volume={47},
pages={151-185}

TY - JOUR
AU - YEUM SUNG JUN
TI - A Study Critiquing the Status in the History of Philosophy concerning Matteo Ricci’s Views of the ‘Tianxue (天學) in the East Asia’
JO - Religions of Korea
PY - 2020
VL - 47
IS - null
PB - The Research Center of Religions
SP - 151
EP - 185
SN - 1738-3617
AB - The study aims to critically review the academic community’s positive assessment of Matteo Ricci’s Tianxue (天學; studies on heaven), which centers on Catholicism as the ‘extreme point of reciprocal exchange’ in the religious, philosophical and cultural exchanges between the East and the West. Matteo Ricci’s assessment and interpretation about the ancient Chinese belief and worship in relation to Heaven and the Lixue (理學; studies on principles) of Song Dynasty were based on the Scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages that is part of the tradition of Western philosophy. Therefore, this study tried to demonstrate that his assessment and interpretation could not but be selective and biased because of the changing history of the concept of ‘culture’ that had its origin in the Latin term ‘cultura’ and in light of Kant’s critique about the status of theology, defining the theology in the Middle Ages as a dogmatism throughout the entire history of Western philosophy in his Critique of Pure Reason. In the history of Western philosophy, the concept of ‘culture’ mutates from the sense of the care of the body, mind, spirit and soul before medieval theology became dominant into the meaning of ‘worship toward god’ in the Middle Ages, at which time thinking was dominated by theology. Based on this point, this study reveals that Matteo Ricci’s criteria, for different interpretations and evaluations concerning Tian (天; heaven) in ancient China's primitive Confucianism and Tian (天; heaven) and Li (理: principle) in Lixue of the Song Dynasty, were based on the Scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and the God-oriented worship and faith that sought redemption and salvation by the divine . His assessment and views of metaphysics and perspective on human beings in Buddhism and Daoism in the East are merely selected and fragmented concepts rather than universal interpretations covering the whole of Eastern thought. The positive assessments centered within the Catholic academic community regarding his views epitomizes Orientalism, which understands the East from a Western perspective.
KW - Matteo Ricci;Tianxue (天學);Kant’s critical philosophy;culture;Orientalism
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YEUM SUNG JUN. (2020). A Study Critiquing the Status in the History of Philosophy concerning Matteo Ricci’s Views of the ‘Tianxue (天學) in the East Asia’. Religions of Korea, 47, 151-185.

YEUM SUNG JUN. 2020, "A Study Critiquing the Status in the History of Philosophy concerning Matteo Ricci’s Views of the ‘Tianxue (天學) in the East Asia’", Religions of Korea, vol.47, pp.151-185.

YEUM SUNG JUN "A Study Critiquing the Status in the History of Philosophy concerning Matteo Ricci’s Views of the ‘Tianxue (天學) in the East Asia’" Religions of Korea 47 pp.151-185 (2020) : 151.

YEUM SUNG JUN. A Study Critiquing the Status in the History of Philosophy concerning Matteo Ricci’s Views of the ‘Tianxue (天學) in the East Asia’. 2020; 47 151-185.

YEUM SUNG JUN. "A Study Critiquing the Status in the History of Philosophy concerning Matteo Ricci’s Views of the ‘Tianxue (天學) in the East Asia’" Religions of Korea 47(2020) : 151-185.

YEUM SUNG JUN. A Study Critiquing the Status in the History of Philosophy concerning Matteo Ricci’s Views of the ‘Tianxue (天學) in the East Asia’. Religions of Korea, 47, 151-185.

YEUM SUNG JUN. A Study Critiquing the Status in the History of Philosophy concerning Matteo Ricci’s Views of the ‘Tianxue (天學) in the East Asia’. Religions of Korea. 2020; 47 151-185.

YEUM SUNG JUN. A Study Critiquing the Status in the History of Philosophy concerning Matteo Ricci’s Views of the ‘Tianxue (天學) in the East Asia’. 2020; 47 151-185.

YEUM SUNG JUN. "A Study Critiquing the Status in the History of Philosophy concerning Matteo Ricci’s Views of the ‘Tianxue (天學) in the East Asia’" Religions of Korea 47(2020) : 151-185.