{"title":"Entre « philosophie » et « religion ». L’image des lettrés chinois selon Alessandro Valignano au tournant de l’année 1588","authors":"Hsin-Tien Chuang","doi":"10.4000/cecil.283","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Title: The image of Chinese literati according to Alessandro Valignano at the turn of the year 1588: Between «philosophy» and «religion» Abstract: In this article, we observe two Western categories used by the Jesuits to describe Chinese thought in their first descriptions of China: philosophy and religion. For this purpose, we examine three writings of Alessandro Valignano S. J (1539-1606), the supreme leader of the mission in China and Japan: the Historia del principio y progresso de la Compañía de Jesús en las Indias orientales (1542-64) of 1583; a letter from Valignano addressed to General Claudio Acquaviva (1543-1615) on November 11, 1588; the De missione legatorum iaponensium ad Romanam Curiam published in 1590. The image of Confucianism that was presented as a «philosophy» indifferent, even opposed to religion, switches into the field of religion.","PeriodicalId":210876,"journal":{"name":"Cahiers d'études des cultures ibériques et latino-américaines","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cahiers d'études des cultures ibériques et latino-américaines","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4000/cecil.283","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Title: The image of Chinese literati according to Alessandro Valignano at the turn of the year 1588: Between «philosophy» and «religion» Abstract: In this article, we observe two Western categories used by the Jesuits to describe Chinese thought in their first descriptions of China: philosophy and religion. For this purpose, we examine three writings of Alessandro Valignano S. J (1539-1606), the supreme leader of the mission in China and Japan: the Historia del principio y progresso de la Compañía de Jesús en las Indias orientales (1542-64) of 1583; a letter from Valignano addressed to General Claudio Acquaviva (1543-1615) on November 11, 1588; the De missione legatorum iaponensium ad Romanam Curiam published in 1590. The image of Confucianism that was presented as a «philosophy» indifferent, even opposed to religion, switches into the field of religion.