Philosopher
Nishi Amane
Overview
Baron Nishi Amane (西周; 7 March 1829 – 30 January 1897) was a Japanese philosopher. He studied law and economics in the Netherlands. He became a political advisor to Tokugawa Yoshinobu before and after the Meiji Restoration. He served as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Popular Affairs, and the Ministry of the Imperial Household under the Meiji government. He was involved in the drafting of the Military Precepts and the Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors. With Mori Arinori and others, he formed the Meirokusha and worked to introduce Western philosophy.
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Ideas Nishi Amane discusses
- Empiricism
- Freemasonry
- Auguste Comte
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Neologism
- John Stuart Mill
- Morpheme
- Mencius
- Netherlands
- Zhou Dunyi
- Medical doctor
- Political science
- Socrates
- Meiji Restoration
- Samurai
- Positivism
- Tokyo
- Empirical evidence
- Utilitarianism
- Neo-Confucianism
- Inductive reasoning
- Leiden
- Classic of Filial Piety
Place in the tradition
Part of Japanese philosophy.