Chapter Encounter with «Moral science» in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan
The term «moral science» was used in universities and academies prior to the emergence of the expression «humanities and social sciences». However, its connection with the modern eastern Asian context has not yet been sufficiently investigated. This paper tries to fill the gap with a case study on i...
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| description | The term «moral science» was used in universities and academies prior to the emergence of the expression «humanities and social sciences». However, its connection with the modern eastern Asian context has not yet been sufficiently investigated. This paper tries to fill the gap with a case study on its import and appropriation by late nineteenth-century Japan to its socio-cultural sphere, having lacked the framework of classifying the sciences into «moral» and «physical» ones. The study achieves this by examining the activities of Meirokusha, a learned society created in 1773 to promote Western studies, and the writings of one of its leading members, Yukichi Fukuzawa, who tried to understand Francis Wayland’s Elements of Moral Science (1835), a famous American textbook in his time. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1370972025-07-18T09:44:25Z Chapter Encounter with «Moral science» in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan Oki, Sayaka Moral Science Meirokusha Francis Wayland Yukichi Fukuzawa Shigeki Nishimura Textbook thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History The term «moral science» was used in universities and academies prior to the emergence of the expression «humanities and social sciences». However, its connection with the modern eastern Asian context has not yet been sufficiently investigated. This paper tries to fill the gap with a case study on its import and appropriation by late nineteenth-century Japan to its socio-cultural sphere, having lacked the framework of classifying the sciences into «moral» and «physical» ones. The study achieves this by examining the activities of Meirokusha, a learned society created in 1773 to promote Western studies, and the writings of one of its leading members, Yukichi Fukuzawa, who tried to understand Francis Wayland’s Elements of Moral Science (1835), a famous American textbook in his time. 2024-05-12T02:08:17Z 2024-05-12T02:08:17Z 2024-04-02T15:50:04Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20240402_9791221502428_190 2975-0261 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89221 9791221502428 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/137097 eng Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89221/1/9791221502428_10.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89221/1/9791221502428_10.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0242-8.10 10.36253/979-12-215-0242-8.10 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221502428 13 Florence open access |
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