Making a moral society [electronic resource] : ethics and the state in Meiji Japan / Richard M. Reitan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2010.Description: xvi, 229 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 170.952/09034 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ970 .R45 2010eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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