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Ji Kang’s Essay “Music Has in It neither Grief nor Joy” (聲無哀樂論) and the Structure (理) of Perception
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 64, Number 1, January 2014
- pp. 109-122
- 10.1353/pew.2014.0013
- Article
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While Ji Kang’s 嵇康, (223–262) famous dispute “Music Has in It neither Grief nor Joy” has commonly been understood as a subtle and indirect critique of Confucian rituality and of the “abuse” of music for political intentions, the present article draws attention to a new interpretation based on his thesis on the structural connection between the subject and the object of perception.