Re-envisioning personhood from the perspective of Japanese philosophy: Watsuji Tetsuro's Aidagara-based ethics
Re-envisioning personhood from the perspective of Japanese philosophy: Watsuji Tetsuro's Aidagara-based ethics
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从日本哲学的角度重新审视人格:和二哲朗的相田伦理
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10.1080/00131857.2021.1897571
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2021
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2
通讯作者:
Sugita Hirotaka
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山下晃一・高野和子・勝野正章・清田夏代;篠原岳司・高橋哲・藤村祐子・榎景子;高野和子;植田 健男;佐藤一子・大安喜一・丸山英樹編;佐尾ちとせ・宮城信・田中弥生;高野和子;山下晃一;中山 智貴・行壽 浩司・田中 伸・吉水裕也;大矢一人;川上泰彦;Sugita Hirotaka
This paper re-envisions the personhood of severely disabled children, who are often excluded from the category of human beings in the academic literature due to their perceived lack of mental faculties, based on Japanese philosopher Watsuji Tetsuro’s concept of human beings (ningen). It begins with Carl Elliott’s claim that personhood should be used as a thick ethical concept. This concept has two features. First, it represents a fusion of fact (describing someone as a person) and value (taking an ethical attitude toward a person). Second, it is embedded in our rich and culturally specific forms of life. This paper suggests that Watsuji’s concept ofningenalso has these features. Watsuji criticizes how Western ethicists take individual consciousness or will as their starting point for determining personhood. Instead, he argues that neither a subject nor a community exists as an entity in itself, but that the relationality between them (aidagara) is essential to their identity and that our communication is embedded within rich and social contexts. Through his etymological study of Japanese wordari, Watsuji points out that in making statements, one both discloses the world and becomes aware of the attitude one should take toward other beings. Some commentators, such as Sakabe Megumi, have suggested that such self-awareness entails the transformation of our sense of relationality. This paper leverages Watsuji’s concept ofningento re-envision the relationship between caregivers and severely disabled children as relationality-based and therefore open to complex and rich communication.
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-4047-1_15
发表时间:
2012
期刊:
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
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影响因子:
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作者:
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