"Compromise between Classical and Proverbs"

…Following the heyday of the Old School, in the second half of the 18th century, eclecticism was so prevalent that eight or nine out of ten famous Confucian scholars were said to be eclectic scholars, and it dominated the Confucian world. Representative theories can be seen in Inoue Kinga's "Jingi Sechu" (1764), a proponent of eclecticism, and Katayama Kaneyama's "Yanshi Suito" (1775). What they had in common was their academic method of choosing and selecting from various previous theories, from the commentaries and commentaries of the Han and Tang dynasties to the theory of logic of the Song and Ming dynasties, without being bound by any of the existing theories such as Zhu Xi school or Yangming school, in order to achieve "reasonableness." …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Compounding Classics and Meanings" are listed below.

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…古学派全盛のあとを受けて，18世紀の後半，当時高名の儒者10人のうち8,9人は折衷学といわれるほど流行し，儒学界の主潮流を占めた。その代表的な学説は，折衷学の提唱者である井上金峨（きんが）の《経義折衷》(1764)，片山兼山の《山子垂統》(1775)などにうかがえる。共通点は，朱子学や陽明学などの既成の学説のいずれにも拘束されず，漢･唐の注疏学から宋･明の理学まで先行諸学説を取捨選択して〈穏当〉をはかるという学問方法にあった。…

※「《経義折衷》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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