倫理学

See also: 倫理學 and 伦理学

Japanese
Kanji in this term
倫 理 学
りん
Grade: S		 り
Grade: 2		 がく
Grade: 1
on’yomi goon
Alternative spelling
倫理學 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 倫(りん)理(り) (rinri, “ethic”) + 学(がく) (-gaku, “-logy; -graphy”), coined by Japanese philosopher Inoue Tetsujirō in 1881 in his work 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Dictionary of Philosophy”) as a calque of English ethics, based on the phrases 樂者，通倫理者也 in the Book of Rites (《禮記》) and 正倫理，篤恩義 in 《近思錄》.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) りんり​がく [rìńríꜜgàkù] (Nakadaka – [3])[1][4][5]
  • IPA(key): [ɾʲĩnɾʲiɡa̠kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

倫(りん)理(り)学(がく) • (rinrigaku) 

  1. ethics (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
    Synonym: 道徳哲学 (dotoku tetsugaku)

Descendants

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  3. Inoue, Tetsujirō (1881), “哲学字彙”, in National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics‎, University of Tokyo, page 31
  4. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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