An Encouragement of Learning

by 福沢諭吉, , Yukichi Fukuzawa, et al.

The intellectual and social theorist Yukichi Fukuzawa wrote An Encouragement of Learning (1872-1876) as a series of pamphlets while completing his critical masterpiece, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (1875). These closely linked texts illustrate the core tenets of his philosophical outlook: freedom and equality as inherent to human nature, independence as the goal of any individual and nation, and the transformation of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231167148
• ISBN13: 9780231167147
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"