英文摘要 |
"The scope of the Confucian core classics has undergone changes from the Five Classics to the Four Books, but the intellectual interests and activities of Confucian literati often went far beyond their boundaries. Especially in the Song Dynasty, due to changes in social patterns, the composition and organizational structure of literati shifted significantly from the aristocracy of the previous generation to the common people, and their interests and pursuit of knowledge became relatively extensive. However, their enthusiasm for non-Confucian knowledge and activities became problematic and sometimes discursive strategies needed to be eveloped for justification because Zixia 子夏(507-? BCE) had once said in the Analect, “Even in the studies of the lesser arts there is something worth being looked at; the gentleman, however, does not practice them as there is a danger of them hampering him from seeking the higher truth.” Through analyzing Song literati’s changes in perceptions and classification of knowledge, this study aims to reveal how the learning of the lesser arts gradually obtained legitimacy and became an integral part of the pursuit of knowledge undertaken by Song literati." |