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Confucian Statecraft of Sokō as Antithesis of Neo-Confucianism

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Yamaga Sokō(山鹿素行, 1622-1685), a scholar in Edo dynasty of Japan, started from neo-confucianism and adhered to a critical perspective, establishing a unique ‘Japan-centered’ ethos of his own. As a common view, this learning is called ‘Kogaku(古學)’ in future generations. The content discussed in this thesis was limited to Yamaga Sokō as one individual, and ‘confucian statecraft’ of Sokō was mentioned under the title 「Confucian Statecraft of Sokō as antithesis of Neo-Confucianism」 in this thesis. On the first part of this thesis, ‘Kogaku’ of Sokō was understood as ‘theory of seonghak(聖學論) as premise of confucian statecraft.’ First, the thesis focused on academic tendency of Sokō as ‘Kogaku=Seonghak’ and look into a point where the meanings of Kogaku and Seonghak become at one. And next, the thesis discusses on characteristic of ethical practice of Seonghak that Soko advocated. On the second part of the thesis, ‘Bushido(武士道) confucian statecraft of Sokō was discussed, and at first based on a word class 「Book of Confucian Morality」 as a main demonstrative data among Sokō’s work, the author argued what aspect and meaning of her theory of statecraft of ‘Bushido’' are. And then the author examined the characteristics of confucian statecraft of Sokō focusing on 「Book of King's Morality」and 「Book of Subject's Morality」.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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