Daniel Canaris
Biographic Data
| ID | 1086592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Canaris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Canaris |
| SIGNATURE | CANARIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6186-2638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Caballero’s Reading of Longobardo’s Report and the Evolution of His Opposition to the Jesuit Accommodation of Confucianism
The Franciscan missionary Antonio de Santa María Caballero (1602–1669) is famed for his categorical opposition to the Jesuit accommodation of Confucianism. Yet scholars have been perplexed by the apparent dissonance between this stance, which was expressed in his 1668 letter to the Jesuit Visitor Luís da Gama (1610–1671), and his embrace of the Confucian classics in his earlier Chinese writings, notably the Tian Ru yin (1664). Using archival sour…
From sanctus to shengren: Mediating Christian and Chinese concepts of human excellence in early modern China
In the 1580s, when the Jesuit missionaries Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607) and Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) established the first Jesuit mission in China, the terms "translatability" and "cultural incommensurability" were yet to enter the European lexicon, but these questions were addressed implicitly through the translation choices employed in the mission field. For the early missionaries, translatability had immense ramifications for their missionary …
Johann Schreck Terrentius, SJ: His European network and the origins of the Jesuit Library in Peking
Invisibile come Dio: La vita e l’opera di Gabriele Biondo
Theologizing the Aristotelian Soul in Early Modern China: The Influence of Dr Navarrus' Enchiridion (1573) over Lingyan lishao (1624) by Francesco Sambiasi and Xu Guangqi
Lingyan lishao 靈言蠡勺 [LYLS] (Humble Attempt to Discuss the Soul, 1624) by the Calabrian Jesuit Francesco Sambiasi (1582-1649) and the Chinese mandarin Xu Guangqi 徐光啓 (1562-1633) was the first Chinese-language treatise on the scholastic Aristotelian soul and a pioneering work in Sino-Western intellectual exchanges. Until now, the dominant assumption has been that the first volume (juan) of this work is simply an adaptation of the Coimbra commentari…
From Confucius to Zhu Xi: The First Treatise on God in François Noël’s Chinese Philosophy (1711)
On 25 September 1710, Pope Clement XI finally promulgated the 1704 decree Cum Deus optimus, which condemned the toleration of certain Confucian rituals among Chinese Catholic converts and the use of the Chinese terms tian and Shangdi to refer to the Christian God. This papal decision antagonised the Kangxi Emperor and devastated the Jesuit China mission. Although the Jesuits were prohibited from publicly refuting the decree, the Flemish Jesuit Fr…
Michele Ruggieri’s Tianzhu shilu (The True Record of the Lord of Heaven, 1584)
The True Record of the Lord of Heaven (Tianzhu shilu, 1584) by the Jesuit missionary Michele Ruggieri was the first Chinese-language work ever published by a European. Despite being published only a few years after Ruggieri started learning Chinese, it evinced sophisticated strategies to accommodate Christianity to the Chinese context and was a pioneering work in Sino-Western exchange. This book features a critical edition of the Chinese and Lati…
Transforming the East: A New Research Project in Australia
The Jesuit translations of the Confucian canon not only provided one of the first European windows into Chinese culture but also changed the intellectual and cultural history of Europe. This paper introduces a new project, which examines the rich history of these translations and their dissemination, and interrogates how Confucian ideas influenced the development of Enlightenment intellectual culture, analysing the personal and textual networks t…
A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and Linghun
This book presents Longobardo's controversial and explosive report that changed the history of the Jesuit China mission
Relaying the Epistemic Foundations of a Transcultural Natural Theology: Proving the Existence of God in Valignano’s Catechismus christianae fidei and Ruggieri’s Tianzhu shilu
When European missionaries first entered Asia and the New World, they largely transposed to their new contexts European catechisms that assumed the intellectual passivity of the catechumen. The Jesuits, however, soon realized that such textual models would not be appropriate in East Asia which boasted its own sophisticated philosophical traditions. This article explores how Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607) deploys and adapts in his pioneering Chinese…
Mediating Humanism and Scholasticism in Longobardo's “Resposta breve” and Ricci's Reading of Confucianism
The “Resposta breve” (Brief response, 1623–24) by Niccolò Longobardo was one of the most controversial documents ever penned in the Jesuit China mission. Longobardo criticized the use of indigenous Chinese vocabulary by Matteo Ricci to express Christian concepts as a perilous accommodation to diabolical monism. This article proposes a close reading of how Longobardo employed Scholastic, humanist, and Chinese sources to critique Ricci's disregard …
Between Reason and Typology: Strategies for Evangelising China in the Writings of Antonio Possevino (1533–1611) & Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607)
The accommodation of Confucianism articulated by Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) reflected a Neoscholastic approach in which rational agreement was the primary hinge of interreligious engagement. Ricci’s rationalism, however, was somewhat atypical among Jesuits of the late sixteenth century who often made overtures towards typology to explain the cultural and religious phenomena encountered in their missionary activities in East Asia and the New World. …
China in Giambattista Vico and Jesuit accommodationism
The twentieth-century rediscovery of Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) by scholars such as Erich Auerbach and Isaiah Berlin was partly driven by the profound resonance of his hermeneutics for the valorisation of cultural alterity. Yet the actual content of his philological investigations is often difficult to square with this reading of his thought. The representation of China in his works is a case in point; despite the enthusiasm with which many of…
Peace and Reason of State in the Confucius Sinarum philosophus (1687)
A persistent feature in Jesuit reports about the late Ming and early Qing was the notion that an enduring peace and concord pervaded the Chinese political system. Although the Jesuits did not invent this association, which was rooted in Greco-Roman historiography, the Jesuit encyclopaedist Antonio Possevino (1533–1611) was the first to link the ‘perpetual peace’ (perpetua pax) and ‘supreme concord’ (summa concordia) of the Chinese state to the Co…
Shame in Ethical Discourse: Vichian Echoes in Bernard Williams
Shame in Ethical Discourse:Vichian Echoes in Bernard Williams Daniel Canaris The affinities between the thought of Bernard Williams (1929–2003) and Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) have been well noted by scholars of Vico, who have stressed the similarities in their treatment of sensus communis and the emotions.1 Although Williams rarely cites Vico, the fact that such strong correspondences exist is most likely the result of Williams’ intellectual d…
Children and myth in the thought of Giambattista Vico
Much has been written on Vico's interpretation of myth in the last few decades.1 Despite the richness in which studies of Vico stand today, scholars have largely ignored the significance of Vico's
Mediating Humanism and Scholasticism in Longobardo's “Resposta breve” and Ricci's Reading of Confucianism
The “Resposta breve” (Brief response, 1623–24) by Niccolò Longobardo was one of the most controversial documents ever penned in the Jesuit China mission. Longobardo criticized the use of indigenous Chinese vocabulary by Matteo Ricci to express Christian concepts as a perilous accommodation to diabolical monism. This article proposes a close reading of how Longobardo employed Scholastic, humanist, and Chinese sources to critique Ricci's disregard …
Theologizing the Aristotelian Soul in Early Modern China: The Influence of Dr Navarrus' Enchiridion (1573) over Lingyan lishao (1624) by Francesco Sambiasi and Xu Guangqi
Lingyan lishao 靈言蠡勺 [LYLS] (Humble Attempt to Discuss the Soul, 1624) by the Calabrian Jesuit Francesco Sambiasi (1582-1649) and the Chinese mandarin Xu Guangqi 徐光啓 (1562-1633) was the first Chinese-language treatise on the scholastic Aristotelian soul and a pioneering work in Sino-Western intellectual exchanges. Until now, the dominant assumption has been that the first volume (juan) of this work is simply an adaptation of the Coimbra commentari…
From sanctus to shengren: Mediating Christian and Chinese concepts of human excellence in early modern China
In the 1580s, when the Jesuit missionaries Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607) and Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) established the first Jesuit mission in China, the terms "translatability" and "cultural incommensurability" were yet to enter the European lexicon, but these questions were addressed implicitly through the translation choices employed in the mission field. For the early missionaries, translatability had immense ramifications for their missionary …
Peace and Reason of State in the Confucius Sinarum philosophus (1687)
A persistent feature in Jesuit reports about the late Ming and early Qing was the notion that an enduring peace and concord pervaded the Chinese political system. Although the Jesuits did not invent this association, which was rooted in Greco-Roman historiography, the Jesuit encyclopaedist Antonio Possevino (1533–1611) was the first to link the ‘perpetual peace’ (perpetua pax) and ‘supreme concord’ (summa concordia) of the Chinese state to the Co…
Children and myth in the thought of Giambattista Vico
Much has been written on Vico's interpretation of myth in the last few decades.1 Despite the richness in which studies of Vico stand today, scholars have largely ignored the significance of Vico's
Shame in Ethical Discourse: Vichian Echoes in Bernard Williams
Shame in Ethical Discourse:Vichian Echoes in Bernard Williams Daniel Canaris The affinities between the thought of Bernard Williams (1929–2003) and Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) have been well noted by scholars of Vico, who have stressed the similarities in their treatment of sensus communis and the emotions.1 Although Williams rarely cites Vico, the fact that such strong correspondences exist is most likely the result of Williams’ intellectual d…
China in Giambattista Vico and Jesuit accommodationism
The twentieth-century rediscovery of Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) by scholars such as Erich Auerbach and Isaiah Berlin was partly driven by the profound resonance of his hermeneutics for the valorisation of cultural alterity. Yet the actual content of his philological investigations is often difficult to square with this reading of his thought. The representation of China in his works is a case in point; despite the enthusiasm with which many of…
Peace and Reason of State in the Confucius Sinarum philosophus (1687)
A persistent feature in Jesuit reports about the late Ming and early Qing was the notion that an enduring peace and concord pervaded the Chinese political system. Although the Jesuits did not invent this association, which was rooted in Greco-Roman historiography, the Jesuit encyclopaedist Antonio Possevino (1533–1611) was the first to link the ‘perpetual peace’ (perpetua pax) and ‘supreme concord’ (summa concordia) of the Chinese state to the Co…
Between Reason and Typology: Strategies for Evangelising China in the Writings of Antonio Possevino (1533–1611) & Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607)
The accommodation of Confucianism articulated by Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) reflected a Neoscholastic approach in which rational agreement was the primary hinge of interreligious engagement. Ricci’s rationalism, however, was somewhat atypical among Jesuits of the late sixteenth century who often made overtures towards typology to explain the cultural and religious phenomena encountered in their missionary activities in East Asia and the New World. …
A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and Linghun
This book presents Longobardo's controversial and explosive report that changed the history of the Jesuit China mission
Relaying the Epistemic Foundations of a Transcultural Natural Theology: Proving the Existence of God in Valignano’s Catechismus christianae fidei and Ruggieri’s Tianzhu shilu
When European missionaries first entered Asia and the New World, they largely transposed to their new contexts European catechisms that assumed the intellectual passivity of the catechumen. The Jesuits, however, soon realized that such textual models would not be appropriate in East Asia which boasted its own sophisticated philosophical traditions. This article explores how Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607) deploys and adapts in his pioneering Chinese…
Mediating Humanism and Scholasticism in Longobardo's “Resposta breve” and Ricci's Reading of Confucianism
The “Resposta breve” (Brief response, 1623–24) by Niccolò Longobardo was one of the most controversial documents ever penned in the Jesuit China mission. Longobardo criticized the use of indigenous Chinese vocabulary by Matteo Ricci to express Christian concepts as a perilous accommodation to diabolical monism. This article proposes a close reading of how Longobardo employed Scholastic, humanist, and Chinese sources to critique Ricci's disregard …
Transforming the East: A New Research Project in Australia
The Jesuit translations of the Confucian canon not only provided one of the first European windows into Chinese culture but also changed the intellectual and cultural history of Europe. This paper introduces a new project, which examines the rich history of these translations and their dissemination, and interrogates how Confucian ideas influenced the development of Enlightenment intellectual culture, analysing the personal and textual networks t…
From Confucius to Zhu Xi: The First Treatise on God in François Noël’s Chinese Philosophy (1711)
On 25 September 1710, Pope Clement XI finally promulgated the 1704 decree Cum Deus optimus, which condemned the toleration of certain Confucian rituals among Chinese Catholic converts and the use of the Chinese terms tian and Shangdi to refer to the Christian God. This papal decision antagonised the Kangxi Emperor and devastated the Jesuit China mission. Although the Jesuits were prohibited from publicly refuting the decree, the Flemish Jesuit Fr…
Michele Ruggieri’s Tianzhu shilu (The True Record of the Lord of Heaven, 1584)
The True Record of the Lord of Heaven (Tianzhu shilu, 1584) by the Jesuit missionary Michele Ruggieri was the first Chinese-language work ever published by a European. Despite being published only a few years after Ruggieri started learning Chinese, it evinced sophisticated strategies to accommodate Christianity to the Chinese context and was a pioneering work in Sino-Western exchange. This book features a critical edition of the Chinese and Lati…
Caballero’s Reading of Longobardo’s Report and the Evolution of His Opposition to the Jesuit Accommodation of Confucianism
The Franciscan missionary Antonio de Santa María Caballero (1602–1669) is famed for his categorical opposition to the Jesuit accommodation of Confucianism. Yet scholars have been perplexed by the apparent dissonance between this stance, which was expressed in his 1668 letter to the Jesuit Visitor Luís da Gama (1610–1671), and his embrace of the Confucian classics in his earlier Chinese writings, notably the Tian Ru yin (1664). Using archival sour…
From sanctus to shengren: Mediating Christian and Chinese concepts of human excellence in early modern China
In the 1580s, when the Jesuit missionaries Michele Ruggieri (1543–1607) and Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) established the first Jesuit mission in China, the terms "translatability" and "cultural incommensurability" were yet to enter the European lexicon, but these questions were addressed implicitly through the translation choices employed in the mission field. For the early missionaries, translatability had immense ramifications for their missionary …
Johann Schreck Terrentius, SJ: His European network and the origins of the Jesuit Library in Peking
Invisibile come Dio: La vita e l’opera di Gabriele Biondo
Theologizing the Aristotelian Soul in Early Modern China: The Influence of Dr Navarrus' Enchiridion (1573) over Lingyan lishao (1624) by Francesco Sambiasi and Xu Guangqi
Lingyan lishao 靈言蠡勺 [LYLS] (Humble Attempt to Discuss the Soul, 1624) by the Calabrian Jesuit Francesco Sambiasi (1582-1649) and the Chinese mandarin Xu Guangqi 徐光啓 (1562-1633) was the first Chinese-language treatise on the scholastic Aristotelian soul and a pioneering work in Sino-Western intellectual exchanges. Until now, the dominant assumption has been that the first volume (juan) of this work is simply an adaptation of the Coimbra commentari…
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