Watsuji Tetsurō's Rinrigaku
By: translated by Yamamoto Seisaku and Robert E. Carter, with an introduction and interpretive essay by Robert E. Carter.
Contributors: Carter, Robert Edgar, 1937-
Series: SUNY series in modern Japanese philosophy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Ethics.
Description: 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.
Notes: "Bibliography of works about Watsuji": p. 371-372.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-365) and index.