• After the Meiji Restoration, came the Meiji era.

  • They excluded Buddhism and returned to Shinto.

  • Enlightenment in the Meiji era:

    • People who taught Western ideas to ignorant individuals.
    • Meirosha made efforts.
      • Leader Mori Arinori advocated for monogamy.
      • Nishi Amane was a person who translated a lot of philosophical terms.
      • And also Fukuzawa Yukichi and others.
      • However, their thoughts contradicted the ideas of civil rights.
        • They believed in limiting individual rights to strengthen the country.
  • Thoughts of civil rights:

    • Ueki Emori wrote a constitution similar to the modern one.
    • Nakae Chōmin said something like Rousseau.
      • The idea of growing the given rights into earned rights.

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