Motoori Norinaga · Philosophy
Norinaga’s program of <em>kokugaku</em> (‘national learning’) - the attempt to recover the ancient Japanese Way by philology, against <em>karagokoro</em>, the ‘Chinese mind’ of Confucian rationalism and moralism that he believed had buried the true, natural Japanese heart, the <em>magokoro</em>.
You learned that kokugaku (national learning) sought to recover an ancient Japanese Way by philology, and that Norinaga blamed karagokoro (the ‘Chinese mind’ of Confucian rationalism and moralism) for falsifying the natural Japanese heart, the magokoro . Explain the contrast between karagokoro and magokoro…
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