Philosopher of Betweenness
Watsuji Tetsuro
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A Japanese philosopher who taught ethics at Kyoto and Tokyo. He held that a person exists in betweenness, in relationships with others, and treated ethics as the study of how people live in that between.
Key work: Ethics (Rinrigaku, 1937–1949)
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
A person is never only an individual, and never only a member.
Ethics studies how we live between people.
Climate and place shape how a people lives.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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