Najwyższa nauka Da xue 大學 — próba interpretacji tekstu w duchu wczesnego konfucjanizmu
Greatest Learning Da Xue 大學: Translation and Interpretation of the Text in the Light of Early Confucian Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: The article contains translation of classical Chinese text Greatest Learning Da Xue 大學 and the interpretation of important terms such as de 德 and gewu 格物. Da Xue is a part of ancient Chinese texts Liji 禮記 but the reinterpretation of the text became later a basis of neo-confucian philosophy. I argue that Da Xue is a pragmatic manual for an individual who firstly wants to cultivate himself and being cultivated is able to change the world into confucian utopia. Hence the phrase gewu does not have a meaning of “investigating things” in order to understand li 理 but “understanding the order of things that come”.

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