- Tytuł:
- The “Unity of Economic and Moral Practice”: Japanese Religious Sensibility and the Person-Centered Economic Tradition of Japan
- Autorzy:
- Morgan, Jason
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2057105.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2021-12-30
- Wydawca:
- International Étienne Gilson Society
- Tematy:
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Ōmi merchants
Ishida Baigan
Shibusawa Eiichi
Pure Land Buddhism
Shintō
Moralogy
sanpō yoshi
Hiroike Chikurō
dōkei ittai - Opis:
- In Japan, the ideal of economic practice has long been rooted in a native Shintō-in-spired religious sensibility according to which the world is populated by a myriad of de-ities (yaoyorozu no kami; lit., “the eight million gods”). This engenders an understand-ing of the other in an economic transaction as having a transcendent nature, and of the household and wider society as a fortiori transcending (both spiritually and diachroni-cally) the individual economic actor. In turn, the transcendent view of the human per-son has nurtured a person-centered approach to economic activity in Japan. The author examines three iterations of Japanese spiritually-inflected economic ac-tivity—the Ōmi merchants, the Shingaku teachings of Ishida Baigan, and the “unity of economic and moral practice” views of Shibusawa Eiichi and later business ethics think-ers—to show that, regardless of specific creed, Japanese economic thinking tends to re-produce the understanding of economic activity as ideally beneficial for human persons. By viewing the human person as an end and never as a means—an anthropology which is ultimately Shintōist, although broadly compatible with other beliefs—the standard ec-onomic actor in Japan works for the betterment of his counterpart and of society as a whole. This human-centered approach should and can be replicated in other countries a-round the world.
- Źródło:
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Studia Gilsoniana; 2021, 10, 5; 1137-1181
2300-0066 - Pojawia się w:
- Studia Gilsoniana
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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