Aristotle in Japan: Reception, Interpretation and Application [Hardcover]

Introduction (Tomohiko Kondo, Koji Tachibana);?Part I: Japanese Philosophers and Scholars on Aristotle;?1: The Reception History of Aristotles Theory of Moral Education in Japan (Koji Tachibana); 2: Tetsur? Watsujis Reception of Aristotles Political Philosophy (Kazutaka Inamura); 3: Doing Philosophy ? la Aristotle: Tadashi Inoues Interpretation of Hypokeimenon (Kazuya Matsuura); 4: Before and Beyond Aristotle: Takashi Ide and Norio Fujisawa on Aristotles Ideal of TheMria (Tomohiko Kondo);?Part II: New Trends in Aristotelian Scholarship in Japan;?5: Aristotles 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 Aristotles 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 Aristotles Ethics to Sports Coaching (Shigeki Sarodo).

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.

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.

The study of Aristotles philosophy in Japan is already over a hundred years old, yet the fruits of these efforts have mostly