Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism

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Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism
The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken (1630-1714)

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Mary Evelyn Tucker - Author

SUNY Series in Philosophy

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Hardcover - 472 pages

Release Date: July 1989

ISBN10: 0-88706-889-8
ISBN13: 978-0-88706-889-8

Price: $36.95
Paperback - 472 pages

Release Date: July 1989

ISBN10: 0-88706-891-X
ISBN13: 978-0-88706-891-1

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Summary

Kaibara Ekken (1630--1714) was the focal Neo-Confucian thinker of the early Tokagawa period. He established the importance of Neo-Confucianism in Japan at a time when Buddhism had long been the dominant religious philosophy. This is the first book-length presentation of his thought. It contains a lengthy introduction to Ekken's life, time, and thought, and a careful translation into readable English of Ekken's book, Precepts for Daily Life in Japan (Yamanto Zokkun).

Mary Evelyn Tucker is Assistant Professor of Religion at Bucknell University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

PART I: Kaibara Ekken

1. Introduction
2. Neo-Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period
3. Biography of Ekken
4. Introduction to Ekken's Thought
5. Analysis of Yamato Zokkun
6. A Comparative Treatment of Ekken's Ethical Treatises
7. Conclusion

PART II: Yamato Zokkun

8. Translation of Yamato Zokkun
9. Japanese Text of Yamato Zokkun

Appendices

A. Chronology of Kaibara Ekken's Life
B. A List of Ekken's Collected Works

Notes

Glossaries

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

Confucianism
Philosophy

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