Original title Rinrigaku Language Japanese Subject Ethics | Country Japan Media type Print Published 1937 | |
Translators Yamamoto Seisaku, Robert Edgar Carter Pages 381 (1996 SUNY edition) People also search for A climate, Watsuji TetsurÅ's Rinrigaku, Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in Nara, Climate and culture | ||
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.
Contents
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.
Influence
Ethics is the premier work of modern Japanese ethical theory.
References
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