Making a moral society [electronic resource] : ethics and the state in Meiji Japan / Richard M. Reitan.
By: Reitan, Richard M.
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BookPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, c2010Description: xvi, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Ethics -- Japan -- History -- 19th century | Ethics -- Japan -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 170.952/09034 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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