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Itō Jinsai
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Jinsai prefers the living Way to the vocabulary of principle, and he makes that challenge in the name of recovering Confucian teaching.
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Guided course · Module 7 · Lesson 39
How inherited ideas become new arguments
Toegye and Yulgok debate how the Four Beginnings relate to the Seven Feelings, and what makes a feeling morally good. Itō Jinsai’s criticism of inherited vocabulary shows another way of transforming Confucian learning.