| Ryūsaku Tsunoda, Wm. Theodore De Bary, William Theodore De Bary, Donald Keene - 1964 - 542 sivua
...farmer, artisan, and merchant necessarily grew up as complementary to one another. However, the samurai eats food without growing it, uses utensils without...manufacturing them, and profits without buying or selling. What is the justification for this? When I reflect today on my pursuit in life [I realize that] I was... | |
| Catharina Blomberg - 1994 - 252 sivua
...farmer, artisan, and merchant necessarily grew up as complementary to one another. However, the samurai eats food without growing it, uses utensils without...manufacturing them, and profits without buying or selling. What is the justification for this? When I reflect today on my pursuit in life/I realize that/I was... | |
| Barbara Ehrenreich - 1997 - 308 sivua
...Rick Fields quotes the seventeenth-century philosopher-samurai Yamaga Soko as wondering: The samurai eats food without growing it, uses utensils without...manufacturing them, and profits without buying or selling. What is the justification for this? But Yamaga Soko quickly answers himself: The business of the samurai... | |
| Marius B. Jansen - 2009 - 933 sivua
...the justice in a system in which one class, the samurai, lived on the labors of another, the farmers. "The samurai," he wrote, "eats food without growing...manufacturing them, and profits without buying or selling. What is the justification for this?" He found that justification in the higher morality of the samurai's... | |
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