Author: James Augustin Brown Scherer
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ISBN: 9781104528195
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Author: Philip Van Ness Myers
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146558014X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Professor Freeman defined history as “past politics.” Mr. Buckle argued that the essence of the historical evolution consists in intellectual progress. Many present-day economists hold that the dominant forces in the historical development are economic. Churchmen consistently make the chief factor in history to be religion. Whether the upholders of these several interpretations of history would have us understand them as speaking of the ultimate goal of the historic evolution, or merely of the dominant motive under which men and society act, none of these interpretations can be accepted by the student of the facts of the moral life of the race as a true reading of history. To him not only does moral progress constitute the very essence of the historic movement, but the ethical motive presents itself as the most constant and regulative force in the evolution of humanity. His chief interest in all the other factors of the historical evolution is in noting in what way and in what measure they have contributed to the growth and enrichment of the moral life of mankind. Thus the historian of morals is deeply interested in the growth of political institutions among men, but chiefly in observing in what way these institutions have affected for good or for evil the moral life of the nation. Particularly is the progress of the world toward political unity a matter of profound concern to him, not because he regards the establishment of the world state as an end in itself, but because the universal state alone can furnish those conditions under which the moral life of humanity can most freely expatiate and find its noblest and truest expression. It is the same with intellectual progress. The student of morals recognizes the fact that the progress of the race in morality is normally dependent upon its progress in knowledge—that conscience waits upon the intellect. But in opposition to Buckle and those of his school, he maintains that, so far from an advance in knowledge constituting the essence of a progressive civilization, this mental advance constitutes merely the condition precedent of real civilization, the distinctive characteristic of which must be a true morality. A civilization or culture which does not include this is doomed to quick retrogression and decay. As Benjamin Kidd truly observes, “When the intellectual development of any section of the race, for the time being, outruns the ethical development, natural selection has apparently weeded it out like any other unsuitable product.” As with the political and intellectual elements of civilization so is it with the economic. The outward forms of the moral life are, it is true, largely determined by the industry of a people; but the informing spirit of morality is the expression of an implanted faculty. It is elicited but not created by environment. No industrial order from which it is lacking can long endure. Natural selection condemns it as unfit. And this we are beginning to recognize—that economics and ethics cannot be divorced, that every great industrial problem is at bottom a moral problem. To the student of the ethical phase of history all social reformers from the old Hebrew prophets down to Karl Marx and Henry George are primarily moralists pleading for social justice, equity, and righteousness.
Author: James Augustin Brown Scherer
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528548199
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Excerpt from What Is Japanese Morality? Greatest of world-powers;' only the Eng lish, Russia's traditional foes, were wise enough to pay some slight attention to Japan. These wrought a nominal alli ance with the little people who had brandished for a day the Regent's Sword in Russia's face. Meanwhile, the Japa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Leon Krings
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 3487160412
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Dieses bibliographische Handbuch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Geschichtsschreibung der Philosophie und des Denkens in japanischer Sprache anhand einer umfangreichen und thematisch geordneten Sammlung einschlägiger Literatur. Mit über tausend Einträgen zeigt die Bibliographie nicht nur, wie umfangreich und komplex die japanische Tradition der Philosophie- und Geistesgeschichtsschreibung ist, sondern auch, wie sie strukturiert und analysiert werden kann, um sie einem vergleichenden und interkulturellen Ansatz für die Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung weltweit zugänglich zu machen. Die Literatur ist nach thematischen Schwerpunkten wie geografischen Regionen und Kontinenten, Nationen und Völkern, religiösen Traditionen und philosophischen Lehren wie Buddhismus, Islam, Shintoismus oder Konfuzianismus sowie nach Disziplinen wie Ethik, Ästhetik oder politischem Denken kategorisiert und organisiert. Die Bibliographie wird von einer Einleitung begleitet, in der die Forschungsmethode sowie quantitative und qualitative Ansätze zur Analyse des Materials dargelegt werden, gefolgt von einem chronologischen Überblick über die Geschichtsschreibung der Philosophie und des Denkens in japanischer Sprache sowie über die japanische Tradition, "Weltgeschichten der Philosophie" zu schreiben. Als erster Schritt in Richtung einer "Geschichte der Geschichtsschreibung der Philosophie" in außereuropäischen Sprachen liefert der Leitfaden nützliche Werkzeuge für eine interkulturell orientierte Wissenschaft, die auf eine nicht-eurozentrische und diversifizierte Geschichtsschreibung der Philosophie in globaler Perspektive abzielt. *** This bibliographical guide gives a comprehensive overview of the historiography of philosophy and thought in the Japanese language through an extensive and thematically organized collection of relevant literature. Comprising over one thousand entries, the bibliography shows not only how extensive and complex the Japanese tradition of philosophical and intellectual historiography is, but also how it might be structured and analyzed to make it accessible to a comparative and intercultural approach to the historiography of philosophy worldwide. The literature is categorized and organized according to thematic focus areas such as geographical regions and continents, nations and peoples, religious traditions and philosophical teachings such as Buddhism, Islam, Shinto, or Confucianism, as well as disciplines such as ethics, aesthetics, or political thought. The bibliography is accompanied by an introduction outlining the research method as well as quantitative and qualitative approaches to analyzing the material, followed by a chronological overview of the historiography of philosophy and thought in the Japanese language as well as of the Japanese tradition of writing “world histories of philosophy”. As a first step towards a “history of the historiography of philosophy” in non-European languages, the guide provides useful tools for interculturally oriented scholarship aimed at a non-Eurocentric and diversified historiography of philosophy in a global perspective.
Author: Philip Van Ness Myers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Author: Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Author: Ichiro Horide
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811373388
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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This book demonstrates that during Japan’s early modern Edo period (1603–1868) an ethical code existed among the merchant class comparable to that of the well-known Bushido. There is compelling evidence that contemporary merchants, who were widely and openly despised as immoral by the samurai, in fact acted in highly ethical ways in accordance with a well-articulated moral code. Japanese society was strictly stratified into four distinct and formally recognized classes: warrior, farmer, craftsman and merchant. From the warriors’ perspective, the merchants, at the base of the social order, had no virtue, and existed only to skim profits as middlemen between producers and consumers. But were these accusations correct? Were the merchants really unethical beings who engaged in unfair business practices? There is ample evidence that negates the ubiquitous slanders of the warrior class and suggests that merchants – no less than the warriors – possessed and acted in accordance with a well-developed ethical code, a spirit that may be called shonindo or “The Way of the Merchant.” This book examines whether a comparison of shonindo, depicting the ethical point of view of the merchant class, and Bushido, embodying that of the warrior class, reveals that shonindo may have in fact surpassed Bushido in some aspects. Comparing contemporarily published historical documents concerning both shonindo and Bushido, as well as Inazo Nitobe’s classic work Bushido: The Soul of Japan, published in 1900, the author examines how Bushido surpassed shonindo in that warriors were willing to die for their strict ethical code. Shonindo, however, may have surpassed Bushido in that merchants were liberal, willing to expand and extend application of their ethical beliefs into all aspects of everyday life for the overall benefit of society. This ethical code is compared with that of the conservative Bushido, which demonstrably proved not up to the task for the modernization and improved well-being of Japan. Ichiro Horide is professor emeritus of Reitaku University. Edward Yagi (Reitaku University) and Stanley J. Ziobro II (Trident Technical College) collaborated in the translation of the original Japanese manuscript into English.
Author: Shailer Mathews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Author: Ohio State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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