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BL
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959170
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b713540
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| Main Entry
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Reitan, Richard M.
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| Title & Author
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Making a moral society : : ethics and the state in Meiji Japan /\ Richard M. Reitan.
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| Publication Statement
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Honolulu :: University of Hawaiʻi Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0824837681
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: 082487059X
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: 1441671234
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: 9780824837686
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: 9780824870591
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: 9781441671233
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0824832949
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9780824832940
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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Presents a study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) that explores the struggle to define a common morality for the emerging nation-state. This book considers the fluidity of moral subjectivity by juxtaposing rinrigaku texts with moral writings by religious apologists.
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Ethics-- Japan-- History-- 19th century.
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Ethics-- Japan-- History-- 20th century.
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Ethics.
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Ethik
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HISTORY-- Asia-- Japan.
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Moral
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PHILOSOPHY-- Ethics Moral Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Social.
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Japan.
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Japan.
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| Dewey Classification
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170.952/09034
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| LC Classification
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BJ970.R45 2010eb
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