- 著者
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石橋 賢太
- 出版者
- 日本倫理学会
- 雑誌
- 倫理学年報 (ISSN:24344699)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.69, pp.233-247, 2020 (Released:2021-05-24)
Yamaga Soko criticizes the lack of practicality of Neo-Confucianism and is
known as a thinker who emphasizes“ daily use ”. However, if you think in detail, there is still a lot of doubt about the position of “daily use” in the philosophy of
conduct. Of particular importance is the relationship between “daily use” and
“the saint’s way”. To date, no studies have clarified this relationship.
Looking at his understanding of the conduct of both, there is a contradiction
between “the saint’s way”, which has transcendence that transcends the era, and
“daily use” that has individuality depending on the era. As a clue to resolving
this contradiction, this paper focused on the discussion about “Taikyoku”. In
this context, Soko has criticized Zhou’s interpretation of the time of “Taikyoku”,
and has developed the “Taikyoku” theory that all coexist simultaneously. The
act says that “Tenchi” is also “Taikyoku”, and “Tenchi” is regarded as non-temporal.
And since the saints are based on their “Tenchi”, “the saint’s way” has
timeless transcendence.
However, ordinary people cannot recognize “Tenchi” as a non-temporal thing,
but have to recognize things in the eyes in order. As a result, the idea of time
occurs in human recognition. “daily use“ is a phase in the idea of this time. Being
committed to such “daily use” means that we believe we have to live in human
perception, which is different from the original way of “Tenchi”. We can
make such a claim because we believe that individuality and the whole are united.
The “Taikyku” theory of the conduct is that all the people exist at the same
time, and individual and transcendence exist at the same time as one. Therefore,
living the perception of people who are only individual leads to the whole. That
is why “saint ’s way” and “daily use”, which have contradictory personalities, are
compatible with each other.
Background of such thought is criticism of the idea that individuality and
transcendence are separated temporally and individuality is only provisional.
This is because such a way of thinking ignores the existence of diverse people.