Japanese Environmental Philosophy

Author : J. Baird Callicott,James McRae
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190683269

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Japanese Environmental Philosophy by J. Baird Callicott,James McRae Pdf

Japanese Environmental Philosophy is an anthology that responds to the environmental problems of the 21st century by drawing from Japanese philosophical traditions to investigate our relationships with other humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment. It contains chapters from fifteen top scholars from Japan, the United States, and Europe. The essays cover a broad range of Japanese thought, including Zen Buddhism, Shintoism, the Kyoto School, Japanese art and aesthetics, and traditional Japanese culture.

Author : J. Baird Callicott,James McRae
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438452012

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Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought by J. Baird Callicott,James McRae Pdf

Seminal essays on environmental philosophy from Indian, Chinese, and Japanese traditions of thought. Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought provides a welcome sequel to the foundational volume in Asian environmental ethics Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought. That volume, edited by J. Baird Callicott and Roger T. Ames and published in 1989, inaugurated comparative environmental ethics, adding Asian thought on the natural world to the developing field of environmental philosophy. This new book, edited by Callicott and James McRae, includes some of the best articles in environmental philosophy from the perspective of Asian thought written more recently, some of which appear in print for the first time. Leading scholars draw from the Indian, Chinese, and Japanese traditions of thought to provide a normative ethical framework that can address the environmental challenges being faced in the twenty-first century. Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist approaches are considered along with those of Zen, Japanese Confucianism, and the contemporary philosophy of the Kyoto School. An investigation of environmental philosophy in these Asian traditions not only challenges Western assumptions, but also provides an understanding of Asian philosophy, religion, and culture that informs contemporary environmental law and policy.

Author : University Distinguished Research Professor J Baird Callicott,J. Baird Callicott,Roger T. Ames
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0887069509

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Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought by University Distinguished Research Professor J Baird Callicott,J. Baird Callicott,Roger T. Ames Pdf

Here, Western environmental philosophers and some of our most distinguished representatives of Asian and comparative philosophy critically consider what Asia has to offer. The first section provides an ecological world view as a basis for comparison. Subsequent sections include chapters by leading contemporary scholars in Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Buddhist thought that explore the Western perception of Asian traditions--the perception that Asian philosophy is a rich conceptual resource for contemporary environmental thinkers.

Author : Midori Kagawa-Fox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136481734

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The Ethics of Japan's Global Environmental Policy by Midori Kagawa-Fox Pdf

This book examines the Japanese government policies that impact on the environment in order to determine whether they incorporate a sufficient ethical substance. Through the three case studies on whaling, nuclear energy, and forestry, the author explores how Western philosophers combined their theories to develop a ‘Western environmental ethics code’ and reveals the existence of a unique ‘Japanese environmental ethics code’ built on Japan’s cultural traditions, religious practices, and empirical experiences. Kagawa-Fox’s discussions show that in spite of the positive contributions that Japan has made towards the global environment, the government has failed to show a corresponding moral obligation to the world ecology in its environmental policy. The book argues that this is a result of the integrity of the policies having been compromised by vested interests and that Japanese business and politics ensure that the policies are primarily focused on maintaining sustainable economic growth. Whilst Japan's global environmental initiatives are the key to its economic survival in the 21st century, and these initiatives may achieve their aims, they do however fail the Japanese code of environmental ethics. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Environmental Studies, Environmental Policy and Ethics, Japanese Politics and Japanese Culture and Society.

Author : W. Puck Brecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015049742524

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An Investigation of Japan's Relationship to Nature and Environment by W. Puck Brecher Pdf

This reference introduces the significance of the natural environment in Japan's ancient culture, in its modern society, and in its future political agendas. It covers nature as a formative phenomenon in Japanese history, religion, philosophy and art; the modern history of Japan's enviromental problems and its successes and failures with dealing with them; the state of Japan's natural enviroment today, how it has been transformed and how this transformation reflects the cultural nexus; the country's grassroots enviromental movements and their sociopolitical significance; and Japan's political culture and the forces which are currently poised to revolutionise the country's official position on the enviroment. It includes personal interviews with specialists from goverment, industry, NGO's and academia.

Author : John W. M. Krummel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786600868

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Contemporary Japanese Philosophy by John W. M. Krummel Pdf

Contemporary Japanese Philosophy: A Reader is an anthology of contemporary (post-war) Japanese philosophy showcasing a range of important philosophers and philosophical trends from 1945 to the present. This important and comprehensive volume introduces the reader to a variety of trends and schools of thought. The first part consists of selections and excerpts of writings from contemporary Japanese philosophers who have made original contributions to Japanese philosophy and promise contributions to world philosophy. Most of these selections appear in English for the first time. The second part consists of original essays written for this volume by scholars in Japanese philosophy on specific trends and tendencies of contemporary Japanese philosophy, such as feminist philosophy, the Kyoto School, and environmental philosophy, as well as future directions the field is likely to take. Ideal for classroom use, this is the ultimate resource for students and teachers of Japanese philosophy.

Author : Robert Stolz
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822376507

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Bad Water by Robert Stolz Pdf

Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. The need to incorporate nature into politics was revealed by a series of large-scale industrial disasters in the 1890s. The Ashio Copper Mine unleashed massive amounts of copper, arsenic, mercury, and other pollutants into surrounding watersheds. Robert Stolz argues that by forcefully demonstrating the mutual penetration of humans and nature, industrial pollution biologically and politically compromised the autonomous liberal subject underlying the political philosophy of the modernizing Meiji state. In the following decades, socialism, anarchism, fascism, and Confucian benevolence and moral economy were marshaled in the search for new theories of a modern political subject and a social organization adequate to the environmental crisis. With detailed considerations of several key environmental activists, including Tanaka Shōzō, Bad Water is a nuanced account of Japan's environmental turn, a historical moment when, for the first time, Japanese thinkers and activists experienced nature as alienated from themselves and were forced to rebuild the connections.

Author : James McRae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Environmental ethics
ISBN : 019063667X

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Japanese Environmental Philosophy by James McRae Pdf

Author : Brett L. Walker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295803012

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Toxic Archipelago by Brett L. Walker Pdf

Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins moved freely from mines, factory sites, and rice paddies into human bodies. Toxic Archipelago explores how toxic pollution works its way into porous human bodies and brings unimaginable pain to some of them. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from insecticide contaminations; poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining; congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents; and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos. This powerful, probing book demonstrates how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years -- and how people and the environment have suffered as a consequence.

Author : Harumi Osaki
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438473116

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Nothingness in the Heart of Empire by Harumi Osaki Pdf

Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School’s moral and political philosophy, based on the school’s founder Nishida Kitarō’s metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism. In the field of philosophy, the common view of philosophy as an essentially Western discipline persists even today, while non-Western philosophy tends to be undervalued and not investigated seriously. In the field of Japanese studies, in turn, research on Japanese philosophy tends to be reduced to a matter of projecting existing stereotypes of alleged Japanese cultural uniqueness through the reading of texts. In Nothingness in the Heart of Empire, Harumi Osaki resists both these tendencies. She closely interprets the wartime discourses of the Kyoto School, a group of modern Japanese philosophers who drew upon East Asian traditions as well as Western philosophy. Her book lucidly delves into the non-Western forms of rationality articulated in such discourses, and reveals the problems inherent in them as the result of these philosophers’ engagements in Japan’s wartime situation, without cloaking these problems under the pretense of “Japanese cultural uniqueness.” In addition, in a manner reminiscent of the controversy surrounding Martin Heidegger’s involvement with Nazi Germany, the book elucidates the political implications of the morality upheld by the Kyoto School and its underlying metaphysics. As such, this book urges dialogue beyond the divide between Western and non-Western philosophies, and beyond the separation between “lofty” philosophy and “common” politics. Harumi Osaki is an independent scholar who received her PhD in contemporary French thought from Hitotsubashi University in 2003 and went on to complete a second doctorate in Japanese philosophy from McGill University in 2016.

Author : Laÿna Droz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000423907

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The Concept of Milieu in Environmental Ethics by Laÿna Droz Pdf

The Concept of Milieu in Environmental Ethics discusses how we can come together to address current environmental problems at the planetary level, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, transborder pollution and desertification. The book recognises the embedded individual sociocultural and environmental contexts that impact our everyday choices. It asks, in this pluralism of worldviews, how can we build common ground to tackle environmental issues? What is our individual moral responsibility within the larger collaborative challenge? Through philosophical reasoning, this book pragmatically addresses these questions and builds a framework to support sustainable ways of living. At the core of the book, it draws on the concept of milieu (fūdo) inspired by the Japanese philosopher Watsuji Tetsurō, which captures how we act within and perceive our surroundings as a web of culturally, historically and geographically situated meanings and values. It argues that the milieu connects us as individuals with community, past and future history, and the natural world, providing us with common ground for global environmental ethics. This book will be an engaging and interesting read for scholars, researchers and students in environmental ethics, philosophy and sustainability.

Author : Tetsur? Watsuji,Watsuji Tetsuro
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791430936

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Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku by Tetsur? Watsuji,Watsuji Tetsuro Pdf

Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku (literally, the principles that allow us to live in friendly community) has been regarded as the definitive study of Japanese ethics for half a century. In Japan, ethics is the study of human being or ningen. As an ethical being, one negates individuality by abandoning one's independence from others. This selflessness is the true meaning of goodness.

Author : Zaini Ujang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9674608249

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Japanese Ecosophy by Zaini Ujang Pdf

Author : MIDORI. KAGAWA-FOX
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138851957

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ETHICS OF JAPAN'S GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY by MIDORI. KAGAWA-FOX Pdf

Author : Padmasiri De Silva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349267729

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Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Buddhism by Padmasiri De Silva Pdf

This work introduces the reader to the central issues and theories in western environmental ethics, and against this background develops a Buddhist environmental philosophy and code of ethics. It contains a lucid exposition of Buddhist environmentalism, its ethics, economics and Buddhist perspectives for environmental education. The work is focused on a diagnosis of the contemporary environmental crisis and a Buddhist contribution to positive solutions. Replete with stories and illustrations from original Buddhist sources, it is both informative and engaging.