Region Japanese philosophy Philosophical era Edo period Role Philosopher | Name Miura Baien Notable ideas jorigaku Books Deep words | |
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Born 1723 Aki, Oita, Japan Main interests Natural philosophy, Epistemology, Scientific method, Ethics, Symmetry Died April 9, 1789, Aki, Kochi Prefecture, Japan Areas of interest Scientific method, Symmetry, Epistemology, Ethics, Natural philosophy | ||
Miura Baien (三浦 梅園, September 1, 1723 – April 9, 1789) was a Japanese philosopher of the Tokugawa era. A scholar often qualified as prolific original thinker in economy, interested in epistemology, he studied nature in a methodical way. He grounded his thought in Neo-Confucianism.
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Born as Miura Susumu into the family of a village physician in the present Ōita Prefecture (at that time named Bungo) on the island of Kyūshū, he became himself a physician and declined invitations to take office in the service of a local feudal lord. A master of Chinese language and poetry, he later became an advocate of a new rationalism.
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