Fukuzawa Yukichi · Politics
Fukuzawa’s central ideal of <em>dokuritsu jison</em> - independence and self-respect - and his famous thesis that a nation can be independent only when its individual citizens are: personal self-reliance as the foundation of national freedom, the citizen in place of the subject.
You learned that Fukuzawa made dokuritsu jison (independence and self-respect) the core of citizenship, argued that national independence rests on personal independence ( isshin dokuritsu shite ikkoku dokuritsu ), and warned that a servile people cannot keep a free country. Explain the chain from self to nation in you…
Leads to John Stuart Mill.
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