PHILOSOPHER

Fukuzawa Yukichi

1835 - 1901

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Fukuzawa Yukichi (福澤 諭吉, January 10, 1835 – February 3, 1901) was a Japanese educator, philosopher, writer, entrepreneur and samurai who founded Keio Gijuku, the newspaper Jiji-Shinpō, and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases. Fukuzawa was an early advocate for reform in Japan. His ideas about the organization of government and the structure of social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the Meiji period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fukuzawa Yukichi has received more than 786,342 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Fukuzawa Yukichi is the 300th most popular philosopher (up from 363rd in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Japan (up from 148th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Philosopher.

Fukuzawa Yukichi is most famous for his book "An Outline of a Theory of Civilization," in which he argued that Japan's cultural identity is based on the "three pillars" of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Shinto.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Fukuzawa Yukichi ranks 300 out of 1,267. Before him are Thomas Carlyle, Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Alexander of Aphrodisias, James Ussher, Otto Weininger, and Franz Brentano. After him are Ramana Maharshi, Sebastian Brant, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Abu Yusuf, Henri Lefebvre, and Robert Nozick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Fukuzawa Yukichi ranks 15. Before him are César Cui, Samuel Butler, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Henryk Wieniawski, Giosuè Carducci, and William Stanley Jevons. After him are Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Josef Stefan, Eduard Strauss, Demetrius Vikelas, Nikolai Rubinstein, and Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern. Among people deceased in 1901, Fukuzawa Yukichi ranks 14. Before him are William McKinley, Milan I of Serbia, Charles Hermite, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, and Li Hongzhang. After him are Abdur Rahman Khan, Gaetano Bresci, Elisha Gray, Francesco Crispi, Josef Rheinberger, and Adolf Eugen Fick.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Fukuzawa Yukichi ranks 100 out of 6,245. Before him are Prince Shōtoku (574), Benkei (1155), Empress Go-Sakuramachi (1740), Naoto Kan (1946), Akira Suzuki (1930), and Paulo Miki (1564). After him are Empress Meishō (1624), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Joan Fontaine (1917), Kunishige Kamamoto (1944), Hiroto Muraoka (1931), and Sei Shōnagon (966).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Japan

Among philosophers born in Japan, Fukuzawa Yukichi ranks 1. After him are Masanobu Fukuoka (1913), Daisaku Ikeda (1928), Kitaro Nishida (1870), Hakuin Ekaku (1686), Hayashi Razan (1583), Motoori Norinaga (1730), Arai Hakuseki (1657), and Ogyū Sorai (1666).

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