Making a moral society : ethics and the state in Meiji Japan /

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Main Author: Reitan, Richard M.
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Ethics and the universal in Meiji Japan
  • Civilization and foolishness : contextualizing ethics in early Meiji Japan
  • The epistemology of Rinrigaku
  • Rinrigaku and religion : the formation and fluidity of moral subjectivity
  • Resisting civilizational hierarchies : the ethics of spirit and the spirit of the people
  • Approaching the moral ideal : national morality, the state, and "dangerous thought"
  • Epilogue: The ethics of humanism and moral particularism in twentieth-century Japan.