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    Bushidō philosophy was resistant to philosophical critique — Carmelics
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    Bushidō philosophy was resistant to philosophical critique

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    • 1.Bushidō's tenets were couched in terms deemed traditional, obscuring their actual novelty
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    • 2.Bushidō was protected by government censorship
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    • 3.Bushidō was institutionalized in the mandatory national educational curriculum (National Morality)
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    • 1.Inoue Tetsujirō's systematic philosophical elaboration of Bushidō invited substantive academic critique from within Meiji intellectual culture.
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    • 2.Scholars like Ukita Kazutami and Christian thinkers such as Uchimura Kanzō publicly challenged Bushidō's ethical foundations despite institutional pressures.
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    • 3.The existence of documented internal dissent demonstrates that institutional protection and critique-resistance are empirically distinguishable conditions.
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    • 1.Nitobe Inazō's 'Bushido: The Soul of Japan' (1900) was written in English precisely to invite cross-cultural philosophical scrutiny, not to foreclose it.
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    • 2.A doctrine deliberately framed for international philosophical audience cannot simultaneously be characterized as structurally resistant to philosophical critique.
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    Bushidō philosophy is, therefore, a true hybrid of Confucian, Buddhist, Shintō, and European parentage. Ideologically it claimed to have been a philosophy of the Japanese people harking back to ancient times but its parentage is clearly nineteenth century. Because of its hybridity, however, its history was occluded and its tenets were couched in terms deemed traditional but often given nuances they had not had previously. Hence, bushidō was almost impervious to philosophical critique, especially
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