#relational-autonomy

¶ Watsuji’s betweenness, ubuntu and relational autonomy: one discovery made three times, or three ideas?

I've been reading Watsuji Tetsurō's Ethics (Rinrigaku) slowly, with a friend from the temple who reads more Japanese philosophy than I do. Watsuji's starting point is that the Japanese word for a human being, ningen, is written with characters meaning "person" and…