‘“Teachers and Friends in the Images of Heaven and Earth: He Xinyin as a Socio-Ontological Revolutionary”, He Xinyin, Shi shuo, Lun you, Trans. from Chinese into Russian and Comm. by Nikolai V. Rudenko’

Authors

  • Nikolai V. Rudenko Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 12, Rozhdestvenka str., Moscow, 107031, Russian Federation.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2024-11-145-159

Keywords:

Ming, Chinese Philosophy, Neo-Confucianism, Taizhou school, He Xinyin, Shi shuo, Lun you, Yi-jing

Abstract

The article presents a research of ideas of two major essays by He Xinyin (1517–1579), a prominent Wang Yangming followers’ Taizhou school represen­tative – “Interpretation of Teachers” (Shi shuo) and “Discussing Friends” (Lun you) and also contains the author’s first translation of these texts into Russian, in which special attention is paid to the detection and interpretation of allusions to philosophical classics. In the course of the study, the author comes to the con­clusion about the revolutionary nature of the horizontal “friendly”, non-hierar­chical model of interaction between Heaven and Earth proposed by He Xinyin, which leads to the revaluation of the types of human relationships comparative importance – namely relationships between father and son, husband and wife, el­der and younger brothers, rulers and subjects, and friends (mentioning that there is almost no boundaries between teachers and friends in He Xinyin’s viewpoint). The connection between the thinker’s ideas and the previous philosophical tradi­tion, primarily the Yijing tradition, is demonstrated in detail. Special attention is paid to identifying those elements of his rhetoric that could be considered ideo­logically dangerous for state power and provoke the persecution, as a result of which the philosopher died in prison

Published

2024-11-04

Issue

Section

Chinese Philosophy

How to Cite

[1]
2024. ‘“Teachers and Friends in the Images of Heaven and Earth: He Xinyin as a Socio-Ontological Revolutionary”, He Xinyin, Shi shuo, Lun you, Trans. from Chinese into Russian and Comm. by Nikolai V. Rudenko’. Voprosy Filosofii. 11 (Nov. 2024), 145–159. DOI:https://doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2024-11-145-159.