An Interpretation of Confucianism in the Sung Dynastyfrom the Perspective of “Scholarly Politics”
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Lin, Han-Wen
Abstract
This thesis is aimed to peruse the historical phenomenon of Scholarly politics, combining political and philosophical history research. First, we need to establish that the scholar class’ utmost pursuit is to establish an ideal this-worldly order, which means harmonious between politics and Confucianism; then, by analyzing their ideas and actions, we can explain the way they perceive different people’s different place in this ideal this-worldly order and how they put it into practice. This thesis will survey the social map constructed by the traditional Scholarly politics, that is, the social status of scholar, the standard of selection, and the society’s expectation on them, etc.his thesis will spent more time on discussing the political and Confucianism activities in North Song dynasty than on Neo-Confucianism, because Neo-Confucianism was indeed trying to summarize Confucianism’s development in Song dynasty, successful or not. Since Neo-Confucianism believed in the existence of absolute truth and tried to perceive the world as a meaningful whole, it provided theoretical base for the ideal order in Scholarly politics; when we see Confucianism in Song dynasty as the rebuilding of an ideal order, we’ll find the Neo-Confucianism as the last and most systematically complete theory in the development of Confucianism in Song dynasty.
Subjects
Scholarly politics
scholars
North Song politics
Zhu Xi,
Wang Anshi
Sima Guang
Type
thesis
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