Kiyozawa Manshi and the Spirit of the Meiji
Seishinshugi 精神主義, a term associated with the work of Meiji Buddhist reformer Kiyozawa Manshi 清沢満之 (1863-1903), is often read as exemplifying a spiritual turn in mid-Meiji Japan, centering an inner realm of private experience in a reaction against the rationalization of the early Meiji period. This...
| Published in: | Journal of Religion in Japan |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Journal of Religion in Japan
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Kiyozawa, Manshi 1863-1903
/ Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831, Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse. Die Philosophie des Geistes
/ New religiosity
/ Meiji reform
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
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B Mind B seishinshugi B Kiyozawa Manshi B Spirit |
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| Summary: | Seishinshugi 精神主義, a term associated with the work of Meiji Buddhist reformer Kiyozawa Manshi 清沢満之 (1863-1903), is often read as exemplifying a spiritual turn in mid-Meiji Japan, centering an inner realm of private experience in a reaction against the rationalization of the early Meiji period. This paper considers the use of the term seishin in Kiyozawa's early work. It finds him treating seishin in two distinct but connected contexts: as a psychological term, influenced particularly by his reading of English physician William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885), and as a philosophical term, in conversation with Hegel's philosophy of spirit. It suggests that an understanding of seishin as developing progressively toward more and more complex forms of consciousness or self-awareness found in both Kiyozawa's psychological and philosophical writing sheds new light on other aspects of Kiyozawa's early career. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-8349 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Religion in Japan
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22118349-00703003 |