Aristotle in Japan

Reception, Interpretation and Application
Herausgeber: Kondo, Tomohiko; Tachibana, Koji

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first volume to explore the modern reception and contemporary relevance of Aristotle and his philosophy in Japan, making it a valuable contribution to both global Aristotelian studies and studies of Japanese philosophical traditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781032008745
• ISBN-10: 1032008741
• Artikelnr.: 71811866

Autorenporträt

Tomohiko Kondo is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Letters, Keio University, Japan. His research focuses on Hellenistic and Roman philosophy, with published articles and book chapters on the Stoic, Platonic and Aristotelian traditions. He is also active in a collaborative project on the receptions of Greek and Roman antiquity in Japan. Koji Tachibana is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Chiba University, Japan, and International Associate Scholar at Georgetown University Medical Center, USA. He is the editor of Alternative Virtues: Japanese Perspectives on Christian and Confucian Traditions (Routledge, 2025) and has published many articles, including 'Virtue Ethics Embedded: Aristotelianism in the Post-War Japanese Moral Education' (Journal of Moral Education, 2024) and 'The Consciousness of Virtue' (Frontiers in Psychology, 2024, with E. Nakazawa).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction (Tomohiko Kondo, Koji Tachibana); Part I: Japanese
Philosophers and Scholars on Aristotle; 1: The Reception History of
Aristotle's Theory of Moral Education in Japan (Koji Tachibana); 2: Tetsurô
Watsuji's Reception of Aristotle's Political Philosophy (Kazutaka Inamura);
3: Doing Philosophy à la Aristotle: Tadashi Inoue's Interpretation of
Hypokeimenon (Kazuya Matsuura); 4: Before and Beyond Aristotle: Takashi Ide
and Norio Fujisawa on Aristotle's Ideal of The¿ria (Tomohiko Kondo); Part
II: New Trends in Aristotelian Scholarship in Japan; 5: Aristotle's Ousia
Reconsidered: Why We Should Not Translate or Understand the Term as
Substance or Jittai (Masashi Nakahata); 6: Dialectical Reasoning in
Rhetoric and Topics (Shogo Takahashi); 7: Naturalism and Parts of the Soul
in Aristotle's Ethics: De Anima and Nicomachean Ethics (Naoto Chatani);
Part III: Updating Aristotle; 8: Intellectual Humility and Japan (Rie
Iizuka); 9: Animals in a Just Polity: A Realist Neo-Aristotelian Overture
(Yuko Kamishima); 10: The Virtue and Happiness of a Coach: Applying
Aristotle's Ethics to Sports Coaching (Shigeki Sarodo).