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<p>Ogy&ucirc; Sorai (1666-1728) was one of the greatest philosophers of early modern Japan, often compared to Western thinkers such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the utilitarian Jeremy Bentham. This volume, a monumental work of scholarship, offers for the first time in any Western language unabridged and fully annotated translations of Sorai's masterpieces. The <em>Bend&ocirc; (Distinguishing the Way) </em>and <em>Benmei (Distinguishing Names) </em>are works of political philosophy that define the theoretical foundation for a leadership exercising total power, the best remedy, in Sorai's view, for a regime in crisis. The translations are based on the 1740 (Genbun 5) woodblock edition, the first major edition of these seminal texts published during the Tokugawa period.</p> <p>John Tucker situates the <em>Bend&ocirc; </em>and <em>Benmei </em>in relation to Neo-Confucianism via what is known as "philosophical lexicography." This genre is traced to the early-thirteenth-century Song dynasty text the <em>Xingli ziyi (The Meanings of Neo-Confucian Terms) </em>by Chen Beixi (1159-1223). Although Sorai was an unrelenting critic of the Neo-Confucian formulations of the great Song synthesizer Z

Author

Mariachiara Gasparini, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824881702