The Sociology of Philosophies

tors of China. Most sharply, Soko was a direct counter to Ansai’s sage religion, rejecting meditation and seriousness as the bas ...

are the principles of things. But a single primal material force is the basis, and principle is posterior to material force, ch’ ...

ancient texts as legitimation for radical revision of accepted principles. “The Way” consists in human norms only, not in laws g ...

these had been the Doctrine of the Mean and the Great Learning, hitherto obscure ancillaries to the old Book of Rites; for Jinsa ...

adopted an eclectic path amidst the issues, further muddying the sharp edges of doctrine which had once characterized the system ...

of all knowledge into pre- and post-astronomy was not accepted by the Kaitokudo, but his empiricist secularism found new bases. ...

concerned with public matters (primarily economics and governmental policy) and those devoted to the scholarship as a cultural r ...

Here it is worthwhile to pause and survey the development of Shinto consciousness. Although very ancient, Shinto was always a si ...

sonalized manifestations of the universal metaphysical principle (Kitagawa, 1987: 164). Formerly dispersed and localized, Shinto ...

halfway house between secularism and religion. In a fully secular intellectual ethos, religion can indeed be defended, but only ...

recognized along with the claims of particularism. By the time of Kamo Mabuchi and Motoori Norinaga, historical criticism itself ...

vation. Innovation is easily cloaked in the guise of tradition—all the more so when it occurs by opening levels of abstraction a ...

late 1900s, secularization is not an all-or-nothing shift in the realm of belief; it does not require that a majority of the pop ...

period of explicit reform. Such had been the prime interests of Japanese intellectuals in the preceding two generations of Tokug ...

fucian academy, had begun with the fusion of philosophy and theology in the sage religion. The institutional revolution carried ...

As a mark of independence, he launched the counterattack against European thinking. His 1891 “Conflict between Religion and Educ ...

with a pupil of Eduard von Hartmann; sojourning at Berlin and Heidelberg, he studied with Harnack, Windelband, and Troeltsch. So ...

of dominance had been disowned by the reform of the school system, but it was not Buddhism but Shinto that was on the rise in th ...

old hat, a Japanese importation of existentialism. In fact the European exis- tentialist vogue did not really get going until th ...

Koyama went so far as to extol war as the test of moral hegemony in the world and advocated state enforcement of discipline in i ...