Watsuji Tetsuro Quotes
Watsuji Tetsuro was a Japanese moral philosopher and cultural historian and one of the principal figures of twentieth-century Japanese thought. Drawing on Heidegger, Kant, and the Confucian and Buddhist traditions, he developed a distinctive ethics centered on the relational human being and the mutual constitution of person and fellow-person. The quotes below are attributed to Watsuji Tetsuro, organized by topic.
Watsuji Tetsuro on Love
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Attributed to Watsuji Tetsuro:
“Solitude itself is a relation; it presupposes the other.”
Watsuji Tetsuro on Mind
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Attributed to Watsuji Tetsuro:
“The personal is always interpersonal.”
Watsuji Tetsuro on Nature
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Attributed to Watsuji Tetsuro:
“Climate is the means by which a people grasps itself.”
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Attributed to Watsuji Tetsuro:
“We exist as we are because of the climate that has shaped us.”
Watsuji Tetsuro on Virtue
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Attributed to Watsuji Tetsuro:
“Ethics is the study of betweenness, the space between person and person.”