Jesuits and the Enlightenment. The New Vision of China from Matteo Ricci to Adam Smith
Abstract
The article deals with the analysis of how the Jesuit reports sent from China influenced the theories common during the Enlightenment with regard to this part of the world. The chronological period starts with the time of M. Montaigne and ends with the time of A. Smith.
About the Author
Dinara V. Dubrovskaya
Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
References
1. Cipolla C. M. Guns and Sails in the Early Phase of European Expansion. 1400–1700. London: Collins; 1965.
2. MacKerras C. Western Images of China. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2000.
3. Mungello D. Curious Land: Jesuit Accomodation and the Origins of Sinology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press; 1989.
4. Lennon T. M. Reading Bayle. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 1999.
5. Dubrovskaya D. V. The Jesuite mission to China. Matteo Ricci and others (1552–1775). Moscow: Institut vostokovedeniya RAN; Kraft+; 2000. (In Russ.)
6. Gernet J. China and the Christian Impact: A Conflict of Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1987.
7. Nobili R. de. Preaching Wisdom to the Wise: Three Treatises. Boston: St. Louis: The Institute for Jesuit Sources; 2000.
8. Dunne G. H. Generation of Giants: The Story of the Jesuits in China in the Last Decades of the Ming Dynasty. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press; 1962.
9. Faure B. The Rhetoric of Immediasy: A Cultural Critique of the Chan Tradition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; 1993.
10. Minamiki G. The Chinese Rites Controversy from its Beginning to Modern Times. Chicago: Loyola University Press, A Campion Book; 1985.
11. Mungello D. Leibniz and Confucianism: the Search of Accord. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press; 1977.
12. Ronan C. A., Oh B. B. (eds) East Meets West: The Jesuits in China (1582–1773). Chicago: Loyola University Press; 1988.
13. Yоung J. D. Confucianism and Christianity: The First Encounter. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press; 1983.
14. Edwardes M. East-West Passage: The Travel of Ideas, Arts and Inventions between Asia and the Western World. London: Taplinger Pub Co; 1971.
15. Bouwsma W. J. Concordia mundi: The Career and Thought of Guillaume Postel (1510–1581). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; 1957.
16. Du Halde J.-B. The general history of China: containing a geographical, historical, chronological, political and physical description of the empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet. Including an exact and particular account of their customs, manners, ceremonies, religion, arts and sciences. London: J. Watts; 1741;1–4.
17. Jacobson N. P. Oriental Influence in the Philosophy of David Hume. Philosophy East and West. 1969;19(1):17–37.
18. Hume D. Essays Moral, Political, and Literary. London: Longmans, Green; 1898.
19. Berry T. The Religious Life of Modern Man. Philosophy East and West. 1974;24(2).
20. Conze E. Buddhist Philosophy and its European Parallels. Philosophy East and West. 1963;13(1–2):9–23.
21. Hoffmann Y. The Idea of Self East and West: A Comparison between Buddhist Philosophy of David Hume. Calcutta: Firma KLM; 1980.
22. Dawson R. The Chinese Chameleon: An Analysis of European Conceptions of Chinese Civilizations. London; New York; Toronto: Oxford University Press; 1967
23. Reichwein A. China and Europe: Intellectual and Artistic Contacts in the Eighteenth Century. London: Barnes & Noble; 1925.
24. De La Mothe Le Vayer F. De la vertu des payens. Paris: Augustin Courbe; 1647.
25. Levenson J. R. (ed.) European Expansion and the Counter-Example of Asia. New York: Prentice Hall; 1967.
26. Roetz H. Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age. Albany: State University of New York Press; 1993.
27. Rosemont H. Kierkegaard and Confucius: on Finding the Way. Philosophy East and West. 1986;36(3):201–212.
28. Yu Jianfu. The influence and enlightenment of Confucian cultural education on modern European civilization. Frontiers of Education in China. 2009;4(1):10–26. DOI: 10.1007/s11516-009-0002-5.
29. Montaigne M. E. de. Essays. London: Penguin Books; 1958.
30. Lach D. F. Asia in the Making of Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1977;2(2).
31. Malbransh N. A conversation between the Christian and the Chinese philosophers regarding the Being and the Nature of God. Kazan: Tsentralnaya tipografiya; 1914. 47 p. (In Russ.).
32. Guy B. The French Image of China before and after Voltaire. Geneva: Institut et Musee Voltaire; 1963.
33. Bailey P. Voltaire and Confucius: French Attitudes towards China in the Early Twentieth Century. History of European Ideas. 1992;14(6):817–837.
34. Song Shun-Ching. Voltaire et la Chine. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l’Université; 1989.
35. Leibniz G. W. Writings on China. Chicago: Open Court; 1994.
36. Cook D. J., Rosemont H. The Pre-established Harmony Between Leibniz and Chinese Thought. Journal of the History Ideas. 1981;42(3):253–267.
37. Gare A. E. Understanding Oriental Cultures. Philosophy East and West. 1995;45(3):309–328.
38. Liu M.-W. The Harmonious Universe of Fa-tsang and Leibniz: a Comparative Study. Philosophy East and West. 1982;32(1):61–76.
39. Webb J. An Historical Essay Endeavouring a Probability that the Language of the Empire of China is the Primitive Language. London; 1669.
40. Needham J. Science and Civilization in China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1954;1.
41. Roy O. Leibniz et la Chine. Paris: Varia; 1972.
42. Lach D. F. The Sinophilism of Christian Wolff. Journal of the History of Ideas. 1953;14(4):561–574.
43. Schurmann F., Schell O. (eds). Imperial China: the decline of the last dynasty and the origins of modern China, the 18th and 19th centuries. London: Penguin Books; 1967.
44. Teng Ssu-Yu. Chinese Influence on the Western Examination System. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 1943:267–312.
For citation:
Dubrovskaya D.V. Jesuits and the Enlightenment. The New Vision of China from Matteo Ricci to Adam Smith. Orientalistica. 2018;1(2):194-208. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31696/2618-7043-2018-1-2-194-208
Views: 960
Email this article 