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Kaiho Seiryō:
“The Law of the Universe:
Commodities Transactions”
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Abstract
This forcefully argued essay on the virtue of commodity trading provides us with evidence that all was not well in the Neo-Confucian social order of Tokugawa Japan. In defiance of the shogunate’s marginalization of the merchant class and its official disdain for profiteering and entrepreneurship, Kaiho Seiryō (1755–1817), a samurai scholar, not only defends but valorizes commercial activity.
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- Reform Edict of Urukagina
- Code of Hammurabi
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Rig Veda
- Hittite Laws
- Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut
- “Great Hymn to the Aten”
- Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty
- Middle Assyrian Laws
- Homer: Iliad
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- Aristotle: Constitution of Sparta
- Confucius: Analects
- Mandate of Heaven
- Twelve Tables of Roman Law
- Funeral Oration of Pericles
- Plato: “Allegory of the Cave”
- Aristotle: Metaphysics
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- Aristotle: Athenian Constitution
- Dao De Jing
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- Huan Kuan: Discourses on Salt and Iron
- Cicero: On the Laws
- Law of Caesar on Municipalities
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- Augustine of Hippo: The City of God
- Theodosian Code
- Emerald Tablet
- Code of Justinian
- Japanese Seventeen-Article Constitution
- Qur’an (Koran)
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- Charlemagne: Great Capitulary
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- Wang Kon: Ten Injunctions
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- Muhammad al-Mawardi: “On Qadis”
- Kai Kaus on the Purchase of Slaves
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- Marco Polo: Description of Hangzhou
- Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa (The Rihla)
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- Requerimiento
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- Dutch Declaration of Independence
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- Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
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- Qianlong: Letter to George III
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