Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku - Ethics in Japan

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Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku - Ethics in Japan

By Watsuji Tetsuro. Translated by Yamamoto Seisaku and Robert E. Carter. With an Introduction and Interpretive Essay
by Robert E. Carter. Tetsuro Watsuji (Watsuji Tetsur¨-) (March 1, 1889, December 26, 1960) was a Japanese moral
philosopher, cultural historian, and intellectual historian. Robert Carter is Professor of Philosophy at Trent University.
Yamamoto Seisaku teaches at the Kansai University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan. - State University of New York
Press, 1996

Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku (literally, the principles that allow us to live in friendly community) has been regarded as the
definitive study of Japanese ethics for half a century. In Japan, ethics is the study of human being or ningen. As an
ethical being, one negates individuality by abandoning one's independence from others. This selflessness is the true
meaning of goodness.

« Here we have a major treatise by a sophisticated thinker who self-consciously wished to provide a distinctly 'Asian'
alternative to Western ethical systems—systems he and others saw as conceptually flawed and culturally
ethnocentric. Long-suppressed questions about the assumed universalizability of some of the West's most privileged
moral modes are posed in and through this work. The study both of comparative ethics and of comparative societies will
necessarily be much enriched and enlivened by it. » From the Foreword by William R. LaFleur

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