Making a moral society
Subtitle: ethics and the state in Meiji Japan
By: Richard M. Reitan.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780824832940
Subjects: Ethics -- Japan -- History -- 19th century; Ethics -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Ethics and the universal in Meiji Japan; title: Civilization and foolishness : contextualizing ethics in early Meiji Japan; title: The epistemology of Rinrigaku; title: Rinrigaku and religion : the formation and fluidity of moral subjectivity; title: Resisting civilizational hierarchies : the ethics of spirit and the spirit of the people; title: Approaching the moral ideal : national morality, the state, and dangerous thought; title: Epilogue: The ethics of humanism and moral particularism in twentieth-century Japan.