The Road Not Taken
Mori Arinori’s Conception of Ethics ( Rinri ) Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21409467 |
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| Authors | Zibo Lin (0000-0002-6473-0518, Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Hanyang Lu (Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-22 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0046-760X • E-ISSN: 1464-5130 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0046760x.2024.2418389 |
| OpenAlex | W4404547007 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
As the ideological pillar of modern Japan’s imperial system, the Imperial Rescript on Education was profoundly imprinted on Japan’s modern education. But, in fact, multiple alternative proposals for developing modern education were put forth in the mid-Meiji period. One such proposal was the ethics (rinri) education promoted by the then Minister of Education Mori Arinori, whose conception of moral education was best embodied in the two textbooks handpicked by himself for the subject of rinri: Rinrisho, which was compiled by his team, and Fushi Dōtokugaku, which was abridged and translated from German educator Friedrich Wilhelm Fricke’s work. These two texts drew criticism because they dismantled the traditional “loyalty and filial piety” framework, and such criticism reveals the logical gap between them and the Rescript. Mori’s conception of ethics education as represented by these two textbooks provides valuable intellectual resources for us to visualise new possibilities for moral education
Higher education · Pedagogy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Highly cited | No |
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