Tokugawa-era rōnin scholar and strategist Yamaga Sokō ( 1622 – 1685 ) wrote extensively on matters relating to bushidō, bukyō ( a " warrior's creed "), and a more general shido, a " way of gentlemen " intended for application to all stations of society.

Though a commoner, and thus not officially of the samurai class, Yui was known as one of the " Three Great Ronin " along with Kumazawa Banzan and Yamaga Sokō.

In Japan, the origin of the philosophy can be traced to works by 17th century Confucian scholars Yamazaki Ansai and Yamaga Sokō, who wrote on the sanctity of the Japanese Imperial house and its superiority to the ruling houses of other nations.

Wilson wrote that Sokō thought of the samurai as a " sort of Warrior-Sage " and focused his writings on the perfection of this " transcendent ideal ".

* Columbia University: Notes on the writings of Yamaga Sokō

The anti-Buddhist movement was led by Confucian, Neo-Confucian, Shinto, and Kokugaku scholars like Toju Nakae, Kumazawa Banzan, Yamaga Sokō, Itō Jinsai, Ogyū Sorai, Norinaga Motoori, and Hirata Atsutane.

According to William Scott Wilson, in his text " Ideals of the Samurai ": " In his theory of Shido ( a less radical theory than bushido ), Sokō defined the warrior as an example of Confucian purity to the other classes of society, and as punisher of those who would stray from its path.

Yamaga Sokō had been studying the Chinese classics since the age of six and at nine years old became a student of Hayashi Razan, a follower of Neo-Confucianism who was responsible for its development as the official doctrine of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Living at a time when very few texts were written in Japanese, and Japanese scholars devoted themselves to the study of Chinese history, literature, and philosophy, Sokō wrote the chucho Jijitsu ( which translates as " Actual Facts about the Central Realm ") to awaken Japanese scholars to the greatness of their own national history and culture.

* October 23-Yamaga Sokō, Japanese philosopher ( born 1622 )

An important early role was played by Yamaga Sokō in theorizing a Japanese military ethos.

" Tokugawa Intellectual History and Prewar Ideology: The Case of Inoue Tetsujirō, Yamaga Sokō, and the Forty-Seven Rōnin ," in Sino-Japanese Studies.

Following the efforts of some figures of the National awakening of Bulgaria ( the most notable among them being Neofit Rilski and Ivan Bogorov ), there had been many attempts to codify a standard Bulgarian language ; however, there was much argument surrounding the choice of norms.

Justice, on this account, is a universal and absolute concept: laws, principles, religions, etc., are merely attempts to codify that concept, sometimes with results that entirely contradict the true nature of justice.

Wells ' books Floor Games ( 1911 ) and Little Wars ( 1913 ) were attempts to codify rules for fighting battles with toy soldiers ( miniatures ), and make them available to the general public.

Various attempts have been made to codify American procedure.

Although there have been many attempts to codify and enumerate the commandments contained in the Torah, the traditional view is based on Maimonides ' enumeration.

However, many treaties are attempts to codify pre-existing customary law.

The first attempts at modern codification were made in the second half of the 18th century in Germany, when the states of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony began to codify their laws.

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There have been attempts to codify reparations both in the Statutes of the International Criminal Court and the UN Basic Principles on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims.

Several attempts have been made in the effort to codify international law.

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Time and again in counseling and teaching, one encounters members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity the insubstantial mythologies of their `` fundamentalist '' heritage and the stubborn reality of the modern world are only too painfully obvious.

The emphasis is given in anatomy, and it is one of the first attempts to represent a kind of motion, and beauty relative to proportions, which appear mostly in post-Archaic art.

In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as ' a liar ', the “ first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity .” Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which “ Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed ..., matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence .” As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullens view has distorted modern attempts, ( e. g. Harnack, Nock, and Brady ), to describe how the Church grew in the early centuries.

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As a student at secondary school in Warsaw, Zamenhof made attempts to create some kind of international language with a grammar that was very rich, but also very complex.

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Plans for further large-scale attempts were hindered by internal turmoil in the Umayyad lands which often made enemies out of their own kind.

The term was first applied to a system proposed in 1796, though a number of pasigraphies had been devised prior to that ; Leopold Einstein reviews 60 attempts at creating an international auxiliary language, the majority of the 17th-18th century projects being pasigraphies of one kind or another, while Arika Okrent includes a list of 500 in her book on the subject, with samples of many.

In a series of scenes on the hills of Wiltshire, which introduce Rickie's wild half-brother Stephen Wonham, Forster attempts a kind of sublime related to those of Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence.

She was known to have been a very kind person and popular with the people of England, for example she was well known for her tireless attempts to ' intercede ' on behalf of the people, procuring pardons for people in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381, and numerous other pardons for wrongdoers.

It is one of the most valuable attempts at a systematized exposition of the history of early rabbinical literature and theology, and has largely inspired subsequent works of that kind, as those of Jacob Brüll and Isaac H. Weiss.

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Battles he had with the Board of Trade over his father's unpaid salary lasted for years, and attempts to sell the land in the colonies went nowhere ; these lands were confiscated during the American Revolution, and even his heirs were unable to recover any kind of compensation for them.

Karl Popper claimed that " It was Kant's criticism of all attempts to prove the existence of God which led to the romantic reaction of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel .… With the romantics, a new kind of dogmatism becomes fashionable ….

The German worker's compensation law of 6 July 1884, initiated by Prince Otto von Bismarck, was passed only after three attempts and was the first of its kind in the world.

1Thess 5: 12 – 13 ), there are many Exclusive assemblies that believe recognizing a man as an " elder " is too close to having clergy, and therefore a group of " leading brothers ", none of whom has an official title of any kind, attempts to present issues to the entire group for it to decide upon, believing that the whole group must decide, not merely a body of " elders ".

Previous attempts at deep brain stimulation-Terri Schiavo being one of the patients-failed to restore consciousness. This kind of stimulation can also be guided by results of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation ( TMS ) as this was able to transitorily improve a patient in PVS ( Dr Pape, Chicago 2009 ) and another in the minimally conscious state ( 2010 ).

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The character Winnie goes into detail about how he came to be and attempts to address cultural struggles as she removes the picture of the Kitchen God from her daughter Pearl's stove, as she does not believe this is the kind of luck Pearl needs.

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In Australia, the country with the longest exposure to polymer, attempts were made in 2006 to form The Money Tracker which tracks Australian Dollars without marking of any kind.