Format:
1 Online-Ressource (285 pages)
ISBN:
9783319583532
Series Statement:
Global political thinkers
Content:
Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes to the Reader -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Ethical System of Watsuji Tetsurô -- 1.1 Two Preparatory Works (1934, 1935) -- 1.1.1 Dualities in Milieu -- 1.1.2 Ethics as the Study of Ningen (1934) -- 1.1.3 Etymologies -- 1.1.4 The History of Western Ethics -- 1.1.5 Methodology -- 1.2 Ethics I (1937) -- 1.2.1 Practical Interconnections Through Acts -- 1.2.2 The Negative Dual-Structure and Ethics of Emptiness -- 1.2.3 Space and Time -- 1.2.4 Trust and Truthfulness -- 1.3 Ethics II (1942, 1946) -- 1.3.1 The Dialectic of Private and Public Existence -- 1.3.2 The Family -- 1.3.3 The Local Community -- 1.3.4 The Economic System -- 1.3.5 Cultural Community -- 1.3.6 The State -- 1.4 Ethics III (1949) -- 1.4.1 Historicity -- 1.4.2 The Ideals of History -- 1.4.3 Milieu -- 1.4.4 National Existence -- 1.4.5 National Imperatives -- 1.5 The Crux of Rinrigaku -- References -- Chapter 2 Relationality vs. Singularity: Between Care Ethics and Poststructuralism -- 2.1 Relational Existence -- 2.2 Watsuji and the Ethics of Care -- 2.2.1 McCarthy's Watsuji-ron -- 2.2.2 Further Contributions and Critiques -- 2.3 The Excesses of Aidagara -- 2.3.1 Husband and Wife -- 2.3.2 Language -- 2.3.3 Being-Toward-Death Between Heidegger and Watsuji -- 2.4 Hints from Poststructuralism -- 2.4.1 Emmanuel Levinas -- 2.4.2 Jean-Luc Nancy -- 2.5 Rethinking Watsuji and the Passion of Aidagara -- 2.5.1 Returning to and from Emptiness -- 2.5.2 Cultural Products and Production -- 2.5.3 The Prophet -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Individuality vs. Community: Confronting the Liberal-Communitarian Debates -- 3.1 Individuality and Totality in Prewar Ethics -- 3.1.1 Emptying Individuality and Totality -- 3.1.2 The Movement of Negation -- 3.1.3 The Functioning of Individuality and Totality
Content:
3.2 The Wartime Story -- 3.2.1 Focusing on Finite Totalities -- 3.2.2 Dialectics as a Spiral Ascent -- 3.2.3 The Mechanism of Cultural Change -- 3.2.4 The Citizen and the State -- 3.2.5 Between 1942 and 1946: A State at War -- 3.3 Postwar Reflections -- 3.3.1 Reinterpreting the Movement of Double-Negation -- 3.3.2 The Individual and Historical Progress -- 3.3.3 National Morality -- 3.4 The Changing Historical Circumstances of Ethics -- 3.4.1 Growing Pressures in Prewar Japan -- 3.4.2 Wartime Madness -- 3.4.3 Philosophizing in the Aftermath -- 3.5 The Liberal-Communitarian Debates -- 3.5.1 Rawls' A Theory of Justice -- 3.5.2 Communitarian Critiques of the Theory of Justice -- 3.5.3 Rawls' Response -- 3.5.4 Watsuji Between Liberalism and Communitarianism -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Universality vs. Particularity: Local Ethics in a Global World -- 4.1 Situating Ethics in Space and Time -- 4.2 Specifying History, Climate, and National Existence -- 4.2.1 Historicity -- 4.2.2 Milieuity and National Existence -- 4.3 Universal Morality and National Morals -- 4.3.1 A Critique of National Morals -- 4.3.2 A Critique of Universal Morality -- 4.3.3 A Watsujian Synthesis of the Universal and Particular -- 4.4 World History -- 4.4.1 The Dynamics of Culture -- 4.4.2 From Culture to Humankind -- 4.5 Realizing Global Ethics -- 4.5.1 Intra-National Imperative -- 4.5.2 International Imperative -- 4.6 Moral Universalism vs. Particularism Today -- 4.6.1 The Recovery of Cultural Difference -- 4.6.2 Two Attempts to Reconcile Universalism and Particularism -- 4.6.3 Watsuji's Approach -- 4.7 Emptiness as a Universal -- 4.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Ethics of Emptiness: The Road from Buddhism to Aidagara -- 5.1 Retracing Watsuji's Buddhism -- 5.1.1 No-Self -- 5.1.2 Dependent Arising
Content:
5.1.3 Buddhist Ethics and Is-Ought -- 5.2 From Buddhist Ethics to the Ethics of Aidagara -- 5.2.1 Emptying and Negation -- 5.2.2 Hegelian Buddhism -- 5.2.3 Discontinuities Between Buddhist Ethics and Interpersonal Ethics -- 5.2.4 Not an Either-Or -- 5.3 Combining Buddhism and Interpersonal Ethics -- 5.3.1 Critical Moments in Hermeneutics -- 5.3.2 Secret Ideals in Hermeneutics -- 5.3.3 The Ideal of Spiritual Community -- 5.3.4 A Prototype of Communal Enlightenment: -- 5.4 Beyond Watsuji: Interpersonal Buddhist Ethics -- 5.4.1 Different Approaches to Emptiness -- 5.4.2 Dharmatheorie and Ningentheorie -- 5.4.3 Trust and Truthfulness -- 5.5 Toward a Contemporary Social Ethics Post-self -- 5.5.1 Buddhist Social Ethics -- 5.5.2 Dharmic Materialism -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- General Conclusion -- Glossary of Key Translations -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783319583525
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sevilla, Anton Luis Watsuji Tetsurô’s Global Ethics of Emptiness : A Contemporary Look at a Modern Japanese Philosopher Cham : Springer International Publishing,c2017 ISBN 9783319583525
Language:
English
Keywords:
Watsuji, Tetsurō 1889-1960
;
Ethik
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