| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥2,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This project attempts to examine a relation between the aesthetic conscience and the concept of honor and to elucidate a relation between Expression and Norm in general, Noblesse oblige (People of high birth or social position should behave nobly toward others) in particular. Our research results are as follows.
1. We examined a relation between the aesthetic conscience and the concept of honor, by discussing the concept of expressive action and sociological ideas of honor (Weber, Simmel, Durkheim, Goffman and Berger).
2. We elucidated the expressive activity and subjective ethics in the Bushido Ethics, which represents a Japanese type of Noblesse oblige, by examining Yamamoto Tunetomo's Hagakure, Nitobe Inazo's Bushido and Mishima Yukio's Yukio Mishima on Hagakure on the one hand, and the sociological significance of Nobless oblige, by discussing Pareto's concept of Elite and Ortega's Aristocratic theory of Mass Society on the other hand.
3. We fore grounded the radical aspects of Noblesse, oblige, by scrutinizing historical and sociological texts about the hara-kiri, and interviews and documents about the tokkotai (kamikaze).
4. We elucidated the actual forms of Noblesse oblige, by interviewing 21 Japanese leading figures and 9 Russian leading figures in variables fields, such as economic, political, cultural and religious fields.
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