On the Economic Ethics of Suzuki Shosan

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to consider the economic ethics of Suzuki Shosan. Economic ethics means vocational ethics, and Suzuki explained vocational ethics in his main published work Banmin Tokuyo. His vocational ethics was based on the principle that worldly things are Buddhism. He looked on one's vocation as the other self of the Buddha. Every vocation as training improves one and relieves his mind. There is a Japanese vocational ethics. It continues living in the Japanese mind.