IDEALISM CALIFORNIA BY KISHIO SATOMI AUTHOR OF Japanese Civilization: its Significance and Realization LONDON: NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. PREFACE THE attention among Western peoples paid to civilization in the East is increasing year by year. For the purpose of introducing some important aspects of Japanese civilization, I have lately published a work in London entitled Japanese Civilization: its Significance and Realization. But in that book I confined my statements to Nichirenism and its relation to the Japanese National Principles, and as to other problems I had to refrain from commenting on them. The present work corresponds to what I have stated in the Preface to my former work, viz. that "I hope to have a chance of introducing under a tentative title The Fundamental Ideas of Japanese/Moral Philosophy.” The author has treated his work philosophically, historically, and by way of proof has adduced several important problems concerning Japanese idealism which have as yet not been quite clearly introduced to the West. Every chapter of the present work seems in itself an independent essay; nevertheless the reader will observe a natural system followed throughout the process of all the chapters. The chapter " Ancient Japanese Idealism and its Development " has been previously published in the German language in Berlin as Altjapanischer Idealismus und seine Entwicklung. I have received 539480 B137 1453 |