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

Making a Moral Society : : Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan / / Richard M Reitan.

This innovative study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) explores the intense struggle to define a common morality for the emerging nation-state. In the Social Darwinist atmosphere of the time, the Japanese state sought to quell uprisings and overcome social disruptions so as to produce national u...

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Reitan, Richard M,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 4 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • About the Author

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