Bushido A Classic Study of Bushido and Samurai Ethics
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
03.04.2018
Verlag
Wilder PublicationsSeitenzahl
96
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/1 cm
Gewicht
303 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-5154-3624-9
The Soul of Japan is Inazo Nitobe's classic introduction to Bushido, the moral code of the samurai and one of the most influential explanations of Japanese character written for Western readers. Nitobe presents Bushido as a discipline of courage, honor, loyalty, self-control, courtesy, sincerity, duty, and readiness for sacrifice. More than a military code, it becomes in his account a way of understanding ethics, education, social obligation, and the formation of character. First published in 1900 as Bushido: The Soul of Japan, the book was written at a time when Japan was rapidly modernizing and Western readers were eager to understand Japanese culture. Nitobe explains Bushido by comparing it with European chivalry, Christianity, Stoicism, classical ethics, and Western moral philosophy, making the book both a study of Japanese tradition and an act of cultural interpretation. Its judgments reflect the assumptions of its time, but its influence on how Bushido was understood outside Japan has been immense. Readers interested in Japanese philosophy, samurai ethics, Eastern wisdom, martial culture, moral discipline, comparative religion, and classic works on character will find The Soul of Japan a significant and readable work. It remains one of the best-known English-language accounts of Bushido: not a detached academic history, but a passionate attempt to explain the ideals of courage, duty, loyalty, honor, and self-mastery that Nitobe believed shaped the Japanese spirit.
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