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Takeshi Koseki, « Diderot et le confucianisme : autour du terme Ju-kiao de l'article *Chinois (Philosophie des) », Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, ID : 10.3406/rde.1994.1251
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Takeshi Koseki: Diderot and Confucisnism (the article PHILOSOPHIE DES CHINOIS). An analysis of several Encyclopédie articles, in particular CHINOIS (PHILOSOPHIE DES) enables the author to question the generally held opinion that Diderot was hostile to the Chinese. In this article we find an apparent contradiction between Diderot's praise for Confucius's moral philosophy and his criticism of Mediæval Chinese sects, in particular Ju-kiau, which is in fact Confucianism. However, as we see in d'Holbach's article JUKIAO, this was considered, following du Halde, the founder of 18th-century Chinese studies, to be a later sect which presented a corrupt form of Confucisnism. Diderot's criticism is thus not directed towards Confucianism, which he respects for its practical moral philosophy, but to the obscure metaphysical doctrines of Ju-kiao.