you know it's like. really a testament to fukuzawa's faith in kunikida that multiple people high key died in osamu dazai's entrance exam, one of whom dazai shot himself, another of whom was a minor, and fukuzawa just. accepted kunikida's endorsement of dazai. like if you say so, kunikida.
okay y'all keep desultorily interposing moral absolutism and moral universalism in the notes, so you're getting assigned reading.
prerequisite texts for commenting about bsd fukuzawa's morality or lack thereof in the notes of this post:
"The Moral Code of Yukichi Fukuzawa," introduced and translated by Joseph Sale (1907)
Why Be Good?: A Historical Introduction to Ethics by Duncan Richter (2008)
Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan by Richard M Reitan (2010)
Chapters 34-36 and 57 of Bungou Stray Dogs by Kafka Asagiri (2012-present)
Bungou Stray Dogs: The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency by Kafka Asagiri (2015)
failure to complete the assigned reading before commenting about bsd fukuzawa's morality or lack thereof in the notes of this post will result in me throwing you into the Asiatic black bear exhibit at Yokohama Zoological Gardens and leaving you overnight.
