Eiji Uehiro, aged 74

Eiji Uehiro (6 June 1937 – 11 January 2019) was a Japanese ethicist and writer who established the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education in 1987, which later became a partner of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. The foundation was inspired by his father, Tetsuhiko Uehiro, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, whose experiences led him to forming a traditional ethics organization in Japan, which Uehiro considered not to have a universal or international enough focus.[1] In 2002, he established the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford; a year later, this led to the formation of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.[2]

Uehiro received the Medal with Blue Ribbon from the Emperor of Japan in 1997, for his services to ethical education.[3] In 2016, he received the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class.[4]

English publications

  • Uehiro, Eiji (2012). Practical Ethics for Our Time. Translated by Becker, Carl. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0480-8.

References

  1. ↑ Becker, Carl B., ed. (1999). Asian and Jungian Views of Ethics. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-30452-1.
  2. ↑ Persson, Ingmar; Savulescu, Julian (2012). "The Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics". Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement. Oxford: OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-965364-5.
  3. ↑ "Eiji Uehiro". Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Archived from the original on 2017-05-26. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
  4. ↑ "上廣榮治・上廣倫理財団会長に旭日重光章" [Eiji Uehiro, Chairman of the Eiji Uehiro Ethics Foundation, Order of the Rising Sun]. 日本教育新聞電子版 NIKKYOWEB (in Japanese). 2016-11-14. Archived from the original on 2019-12-28. Retrieved 2021-02-14.
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