Bushido
In Japanese tradition, Bushido (武士道), the way of the warrior. Many samurai devoted their lives to bushido, a strict code that demanded loyalty and honor to the death. If a samurai failed to uphold his honor he could regain it by committing seppuku (ritual suicide). This is also a spiritual basis for those who committed kamikaze attack during World War II.Bushido is a particularly internally-consistent ethical code. In its purest form, it demands of its practitioners that they look effectively backward at the present from the moment of their own death. As if they were already, in effect, dead. This is particularly true of the earlier forms of Bushido or budo. Of later forms, traditionalists would scoff, "they reason with staying alive kept clearly in mind."
Important figures in the development of Bushido:
The modern sport of kendo takes its basic philosophy from bushido, in particular, the theory that the entire purpose of the sport is "one cut, one kill". Unlike other martial arts extended contact or multiple strikes tends to be discouraged, in favor of clean single strokes on the body or the head.
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PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-SLAVERY OFFICE,
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NARRATIVE
FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
IN THE YEAR 1845
IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT
PREFACE
slavery.html">slavery.html">slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was
DOUGLASS, the writer of the following Narrative. He
but, having recently made his escape from the south-
excited to ascertain the principles and measures of
vague description while he was a slave,--he was in-
luded to, though at that time a resident in New
for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet pant-
tunate for the cause of negro emancipation, and of
which he has already done so much to save and bless!
ances, whose sympathy and affection he has strongly
his virtuous traits of character, by his ever-abiding
bound with them!--fortunate for the multitudes, in
enlightened on the subject of slavery, and who have
virtuous indignation by his stirring eloquence against
it at once brought him into the field of public use-
ened the slumbering energies of his soul, and con-
of the oppressor, and letting the oppressed go free!
I shall never forget his first speech at the conven-
mind--the powerful impression it created upon a
applause which followed from the beginning to the
slavery so intensely as at that moment; certainly, my
flicted by it, on the godlike nature of its victims, was
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