‘통속(通俗)도덕’론 소고

Abstract

Many foreigners visited Japan in the 19th century, they would have received any impressions for the Japanese? Foreigners with direct experience in Japan, the Japanese social thought different from the behavior of the Chinese. They appreciate the life norms, such as honesty, courtesy, diligence, kindness, cleanliness of the Japanese. And the behavior of the Japanese has been passed down the tradition of Japanese society. Japan's academic history has interpreted the behavior of the Japanese as a folk morality. Folk morality is a traditional culture and spiritual culture of the Japanese. Japanese are still practicing folk morality. This structure ultimately it is important to note the fact that the action is based on the integration of which enables the state integrated with the spirit. This is the spirit of the traditional culture of Japan. When we researched consciousness structure of Japanese, we could understand what is the most honorable traditional value, which is about national character, to Japanese. The most honorable value to Japanese is diligence and honesty. These two national characters are social expectancy to every job and organization culture established by national characters making behavior standards, which are essential to organization. This mentality has been came from intrinsic behavior. which named taken root in the behavior norm for the common people. This paper has researched logic of singaku based on folk morality and history of folk morality. Furthermore, this paper has been studied that folk morality has caused the limitation of spiritual culture.