6. The Formation and Limitations of Modern Japanese Confucianism: Confucianism for the Nation and Confucianism for the People

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Confucianisms in a Changing World Cultural Order
5. 1. Rethinking Confucianism’s Relationship to Global Capitalism: Some Philosophical Reflections for a Confucian Critique of Global Capitalism 9
6. 2. Confucianism as an Antidote for the Liberal Self‐Centeredness: A Dialogue between Confucianism and Liberalism 29
7. 3. Toward Religious Harmony: A Confucian Contribution 43
8. 4. The Special District of Confucian Culture, the Amish Community, and the Confucian Pre-Qin Political Heritage 55
9. Part II: Different Confucianisms
10. 5. Why Speak of “East Asian Confucianisms”? 75
11. 6. The Formation and Limitations of Modern Japanese Confucianism: Confucianism for the Nation and Confucianism for the People 87
12. 7. Historical and Cultural Features of Confucianism in East Asia 102
13. 8. Animism and Spiritualism: The Two Origins of Life in Confucianism 112
14. 9. The Noble Person and the Revolutionary: Living with Confucian Values in Contemporary Vietnam 128
15. Part III: Clarifying Confucian Values
16. 10. The Ethics of Contingency: Yinyang 165
17. 11. Zhong in the Analects with Insights into Loyalty 175
18. Part IV: Limitations and the Critical Reform of Confucian Cultures
19. 12. Whither Confucius? Whither Philosophy? 199
20. 13. Euro-Japanese Universalism, Korean Confucianism, and Aesthetic Communities 222
21. 14. State Power and the Confucian Classics: Observations on the Mengzi jiewen and Truth Management under the First Ming Emperor 235
22. 15. Striving for Democracy: Confucian Political Philosophy in the Ming and Qing Dynasties 252
23. Contributors 263
24. Index 269