The evolution of merchant moral thought in Tokugawa Japan

The Tokugawa Era of Japan is known for its domination by the shogunate, or warrior bureaucracy. While samurai capture the popular imagination, the merchant class of this era was changing their cultural narrative as well. The regime, officially Neo-Confucian, considered trade a vulgar and corrupting...

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Autor principal:	Ryan Langrill
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Publicado:	Editura ASE Bucuresti 2012
Materias:	Business history Moral philosophy Commerce Economics as a science HB71-74
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ba9dfd7a0fbe451ba3f91f5530302b642021-12-02T05:56:56ZThe evolution of merchant moral thought in Tokugawa Japan1843-22981844-8208https://doaj.org/article/ba9dfd7a0fbe451ba3f91f5530302b642012-05-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.jpe.ro/poze/articole/73.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/1843-2298https://doaj.org/toc/1844-8208The Tokugawa Era of Japan is known for its domination by the shogunate, or warrior bureaucracy. While samurai capture the popular imagination, the merchant class of this era was changing their cultural narrative as well. The regime, officially Neo-Confucian, considered trade a vulgar and corrupting activity, but among commoners, especially in Osaka, a culture arose celebrating the virtue of commerce. Merchant scholars and commoners assailed the orthodoxy by putting forth alternate interpretations of Confucianism, and later by abandoning the entire Confucian framework. Their primary goal was to explore the nature of virtue and commerce, and justify their own place in the world. As a side effect, the marriage of virtue to commerce allowed a nexus of long-term relationships to arise, based in Osaka.Ryan LangrillEditura ASE BucurestiarticleBusiness historyMoral philosophyCommerceEconomics as a scienceHB71-74DEENFRJournal of Philosophical Economics, Vol V, Iss 2, Pp 109-122 (2012)
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The evolution of merchant moral thought in Tokugawa Japan

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