Making a moral society ethics and the state in Meiji Japan /
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| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai°i Press,
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10412296 |
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.