Eiji Uehiro
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Born | Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan | 6 June 1937
Died | 11 January 2019 | (aged 81)
Occupation(s) | Ethicist, social educator, writer |
Known for | Founding the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education and Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics |
Eiji Uehiro (
Early life and education[edit]
Uehiro was born in Kumamoto Prefecture on 6 June 1937.[1] In 1960, he graduated from the Chuo University, Faculty of Law.[2]
Career[edit]
Uehiro established the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education in 1987, which later became a partner of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. The foundation was inspired by his father, Tetsuhiko Uehiro, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, whose experiences led him to forming a traditional ethics organization in Japan, which Uehiro considered not to have a universal or international enough focus.[3] In 2002, he established the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford; a year later, this led to the formation of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.[4]
Recognition[edit]
Uehiro received the Medal with Blue Ribbon from the Emperor of Japan in 1997, for his services to ethical education.[5] In 2016, he received the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class.[6]
English publications[edit]
- Uehiro, Eiji (2012). Practical Ethics for Our Time. Translated by Becker, Carl. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0480-8.
References[edit]
- ^ "「
実践 倫理 宏 正 会 名誉 会長 お別 れの会 」" [Farewell Gathering for Practical Ethics Koushou-kai Honorary Chairman] (in Japanese). 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2024-01-18. - ^ "
中央 大学 卒業 者 2016年 秋 の叙勲 者 " [Central University Graduates who Received Decorations in Autumn 2016] (PDF) (in Japanese). 2016. Retrieved 2024-01-18. - ^ Becker, Carl B., ed. (1999). Asian and Jungian Views of Ethics. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-30452-1.
- ^ Persson, Ingmar; Savulescu, Julian (2012). "The Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics". Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement. Oxford: OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-965364-5.
- ^ "Eiji Uehiro". Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Archived from the original on 2017-05-26. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- ^ "
上 廣 榮治 ・上 廣 倫理 財団 会長 に旭日重光章 " [Eiji Uehiro, Chairman of the Eiji Uehiro Ethics Foundation, Order of the Rising Sun].日本 教育 新聞 電子 版 NIKKYOWEB (in Japanese). 2016-11-14. Archived from the original on 2019-12-28. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
- 1937 births
- 2019 deaths
- 20th-century Japanese educators
- 20th-century Japanese male writers
- 21st-century Japanese educators
- 21st-century Japanese male writers
- Chuo University alumni
- Japanese ethicists
- Organization founders
- People from Kumamoto Prefecture
- Recipients of the Medal with Blue Ribbon
- Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class