Alternative Virtues: Japanese Perspectives on Christian and Confucian Traditions [Hardcover]

Part 1:?Historical Perspectives? 1.?Fkryk: Japanese Virtue United with Natural Beauty? 2.?BushidM: The Essence of Devotion? 3.?Kei: Transfiguration of the Confucian Virtues in Japan? 4.?Makoto: Watsujis Ethics as Ontology of Trust??Part 2:?Moral Virtues? 5.?Onozukara: Virtue, Reason, and Second Nature? 6.?Amae: The Virtue of Being Loved? 7.?Jin: End-of-Life Care in Japanese Clinical Settings??Part 3:?Epistemic Virtues? 8.?Kenkyo: Can Japanese Humility be Considered an Intellectual Virtue? A Comparison between Humility in the East and West? 9.?Jishin: Intellectual Confidence Has a Prominent Place in Understanding Epistemic Flourishing for Japanese Women? 10.?Kizukai: Epistemic Care for Resisting Testimonial Injustice Induced by Japanese Privileges? 11.?Waza: From Skill Analogy of Virtues to Waza Analogy of Virtues

Incorporating various perspectives on the Japanese notion of virtue, Alternative Virtues investigates and expands our current understanding of virtue and presents a foundational case study of an alternative approach to virtues.

Koji Tachibana is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities at Chiba University, Japan, and an International Associate Scholar at Georgetown University Medical Center, USA.

Incorporating various perspectives on the Japanese notion of virtue, Alternative Virtues investigates and expands our current understanding of virtue and presents a foundational case study of an alternative approach to virtues.

The study of virtue has long been dominated by Western (i.e., Christian) and far-Eastern (i.l£8