The modern political consciousness of Japan cannot be understood without reference to the history of the Tokugawa period, the era between 1600 and 1868 that preceded Japan's modern transformation. In this volume Tetsuo Najita introduces the ideas of the leading political thinker of the period, Ogyu Sorai (1666-1728), providing an important insight into the history and politics of contemporary Japan. Sorai's texts are accompanied by a chronology of his life, a glossary, a guide to persons mentioned in the text, and a guide to further reading, as well as Professor Najita's introduction, which...
The modern political consciousness of Japan cannot be understood without reference to the history of the Tokugawa period, the era between 1600 and 186...
What sort of commitments do human beings have good reason to acknowledge to one another and to the social units (family, tribe, state) to which they belong? Is the sovereign authority of the state anywhere or everywhere a true moral authority, or is it simply a coercive capacity of varying force, reposing on a range of effectively touted false beliefs? What political obligations, if any, do men truly have? The central questions of political philosophy have not lessened in practical urgency or in theoretical difficulty in recent decades. But they have become increasingly hard to address in an...
What sort of commitments do human beings have good reason to acknowledge to one another and to the social units (family, tribe, state) to which they b...
The task of political theory is to show human beings how they have good reason to act in the historical situation in which they find themselves. The central theme of interpreting political responsibility is the increasingly inefffectual contribtuion of modern academic study of political theory to carrying out this task.
The task of political theory is to show human beings how they have good reason to act in the historical situation in which they find themselves. The c...
First published in 1973, this is a study of the historical relationship between the system of colonial control and local social and political structures in the Ahafo region of Ghana since the arrival of the British. There has been much academic writing about African policies in the past but it has not on the whole been very successful in illuminating to outsiders what political conflicts in African countries are concerned with or what political actors in Africa understand themselves to be doing. This is particularly true in the case of the political actions of those who, like the great...
First published in 1973, this is a study of the historical relationship between the system of colonial control and local social and political structur...
