Motoori Norinaga thought model
Japan · 1730–1801
A thinker who articulated an ethics of sensibility through mono no aware, classical scholarship, and national learning (kokugaku).
Perspective
The human heart is moved deeply not by reasoning alone but by the sensibility that knows the pathos of things (mono no aware).
Value model
Individual agency58
Rational inquiry20
Risk awareness42
Social conformity45
Self-overcoming55
Practicality35
Language skepticism45
Decision principles
- Do not make light of the moment your heart was moved.
- Peel away borrowed reasoning.
- Count sensibility among the materials of judgment.