Comparative Studies: Japan and America
Comparative Studies: Japan and America
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比较研究:日本和美国
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1997
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T. Beauchamp
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T. Beauchamp
Many today believe that secular pluralism has created a so-called postmodern world in which we should give up our robust past beliefs in the universality of moral precepts (Engelhardt and Wildes, 1994, esp. p. 136; Wildes, 1993; Engelhardt, 1986, pp. 39–103, 366–79). I will maintain, however, that a body of general ethical precepts constitutes morality wherever it is found. I will call this shared, universal system of beliefs “morality in the narrow sense.” From this perspective, no difference exists in basic moral precepts between Japanese and Western morality. When the word “morality” is used exclusively in the narrow sense, it makes no sense to speak of fundamentally different moralities — as if Buddhist morality, Shinto morality, Jewish morality, and Christian morality were fundamentally different. However, different moralities are present in what I will call “morality in the broad sense,” as I will discuss shortly. Morality in the broad sense recognizes divergent and even conflicting moral positions created by different philosophical, religious, or cultural commitments.