Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan 9780824837686

This innovative study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868–1912) explores the intense struggle to define a common morality for

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English Pages 248 Year 2009

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Civilization and Foolishness: Contextualizing Ethics in Early Meiji Japan
2. The Epistemology of Rinrigaku
3. Rinrigaku and Religion: The Formation and Fluidity of Moral Subjectivity
4. Resisting Civilizational Hierarchies: The Ethics of Spirit and the Spirit of the People
5. Approaching the Moral Ideal: National Morality, the State, and “Dangerous Thought”
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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