Making a moral society ethics and the state in Meiji Japan /

Reitan, Richard M.

Making a moral society ethics and the state in Meiji Japan / [Texte imprimé] : Richard M. Reitan - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, cop. 2010 - 1 vol. (229 p.) ; 24 cm

Bibliogr. p. 205-217

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

978-0-8248-3294-0

Ethics--Japan--History--19th century Ethics--Japan--History--20th century

170.95209034