Miura Baien
| Miura Baien 三浦梅園 | |
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| Born |
1723 Aki, Ōita, Japan |
| Died |
1789 Aki, Japan |
| Region | Japanese philosophy |
Main interests | Natural philosophy, Epistemology, Scientific method, Ethics, Symmetry |
Notable ideas | jorigaku |
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In this Japanese name, the family name is Miura.
Miura Baien (三浦 梅園, September 1, 1723 – April 9, 1789) was a Japanese philosopher of the Tokugawa era. A scholar often qualified as prolific original thinker in economy, interested in epistemology,[1] he studied nature in a methodical way. He grounded his thought in Neo-Confucianism.
Life
Born as Miura Susumu into the family of a village physician in the present Ōita Prefecture (at that time named Bungo) on the island of Kyūshū, he became himself a physician and declined invitations to take office in the service of a local feudal lord. A master of Chinese language and poetry, he later became an advocate of a new rationalism.[2]
Key ideas
- jorigaku
- gengo-zu diagrams
Key works
- Baien's Three "Go (words)"[3]
- Gengo (lit. Abstruse Talk), freely translated as Discourse on Methaphysics
- Zeigo (lit. Talking On and On), freely translated as Discourse on Corollaries
- Kango (lit. Presumtuous Talk), freely translated as Discourse on Morality
- Heigo Fūji (lit. Confidential Matters on the Year Hinoe), 1786, a treatise on political, economic, military and legal affairs
- Kagen (lit. The Origin of Price)
- Logical Model of Earth Ecosystem
- collection of his work in Baien Shiryōshū (1989, Perikansha publication)
See also
References
- ↑ The Cambridge History of Japan: Early modern Japan, page 633
- ↑ Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. I, compiled by Ryusaku Tunoda, Wm. Theodore de Bary, Donald Keene, Columbia University Press, New York, 1958, p. 480
- ↑ Ancient Sages of the Oita prefecture Three Wisemen of Bungo
External links
- picture of the Miura Baien Historical Museum in the Oita prefecture opened in October 2000
- Miura Baien, 1723-1789, and His Dialectic & Political Ideas, by Gino K. Piovesana � 1965, Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 20, No. 3/4 (1965), pp. 389–421
- "Logical Model of Earth Ecosystem" by Baien Miura by Tatsuya Kitabayashi, 2004
- Concerning Baien Miura and 'Reply to Taga' by Tatsuya Kitabayashi
- Philosophic projections, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 30, Number 3 / September, 2008
- Miura Baien's Ethical Thought, in Annals of ethics
- blog post Aki / ?? by Joel Swagman featuring pictures of Miura Baien's house, dedicated museum, and grave, 2009
- A Study on the Diagrams by Baien Miura and Sontoku Ninomiya, Ritsuko Izuhara, 2001
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