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2024年度 第2回 定例研究会「The Social Origins of Confucian Thought」
Kai Vogelsang客員教授(着任研究会)が開催されました

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2024年7月25日(木)14時より、Kai Vogelsang客員教授による2024年度 第2回 定例研究会「The Social Origins of Confucian Thought」(着任研究会)が開催された。社会的変遷という視座から孔子の『論語』を読み直し、当時の新たな社会構造の中に置かれた歴史的象徴として孔子を位置付ける解釈が披露された。その後、多文化圏(イスラーム園など)との比較、清代哲学者の孔子解釈、社会的変遷に対する抵抗として孔子を読む方法、礼の複数性、解釈の時間軸などに関する質疑応答が活発に交わされた。ドイツ・ハンブルク大学所属のKai Vogelsang客員教授は今年10月まで東洋文化研究所に滞在する予定である。

 

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開催情報

日時:2024年7月25日(木)14時00分〜16時00分(日本時間)

会場:東京大学東洋文化研究所大会議室(3F)+ オンライン(ZOOM)

発表者:Kai Vogelsang(東京大学東洋文化研究所・客員教授)

題目:The Social Origins of Confucian Thought

司会:中島隆博(東京大学東洋文化研究所・所長)

使用言語:英語

要旨:Confucius is perhaps the most-studied personality in Chinese history. The questions surrounding his times and his teachings are legion. They concern the dating, structure, and authority of the transmitted sources, namely the Lunyu, the transmission and interpretation of his teachings, problems of Confucius’ biography, his role in the editing of canonical texts, and many more. For all its merits, however, the scholarship surrounding Confucius teachings has left the social roots of his thought largely unexplored. Apart from  rare exceptions like Fei Xiaotong (and Marxist scholars), scholars have not seriously applied social theory to the case of Confucius. Rather, they have treated him as a personality sui generis, or even as a sage who imparted timeless teachings.    

The present talk will address this issue by presenting a theory of Chunqiu society and then interpret the Lunyu in the light of this social structure. It argues that many of his concepts and sayings which have, so far, only been superficially understood, can be explained with reference to social structure: they present answers to the social problems of his times.   From this perspective, Confucius’ no longer appears as a singular genius, but as a symbol of his times; his concepts no longer remain obscure but can be explained in well-known sociological or ethnological terms; and his teachings no longer appear as specifically “Chinese” but can be compared to similar social phenomena in many other societies.  

 

 



登録種別:研究活動記録
登録日時:WedJul3113:43:262024
登録者 :Vogelsang・キム・上田・多田
掲載期間:20240801 - 20241031
当日期間:20240725 - 20240725