Ethics (Watsuji)
| Author | Tetsuro Watsuji |
|---|---|
| Original title | Rinrigaku |
| Translator | Yamamoto Seisaku, Robert Edgar Carter |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Subject | Ethics |
| Published | 1937 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 381 (1996 SUNY edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0791430934 |
Ethics (Japanese: Rinrigaku) is a work of ethical theory by the Japanese philosopher Tetsuro Watsuji. Its three volumes were first published in 1937, 1942, and 1949 respectively.[1]
Summary
Watsuji develops a communitarian ethics in terms of the "betweenness" (aidagara) of persons based on the Japanese notion of self as ningen, whose two characters reveal the double structure of personhood as both individual and social.[1]
Influence
Ethics is the premier work of modern Japanese ethical theory.[1]
References
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Books
- Odin, Steve (1999). Audi, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-63722-8.
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