The Buddhist Roots of Watsuji Tetsurô's Ethics of Emptiness

Watsuji Tetsurô (1889-1960) is famous for having constructed a systematic socio-political ethics on the basis of the idea of emptiness. This essay examines his 1938 essay “The Concept of ‘Dharma' and the Dialectics of Emptiness in Buddhist Philosophy” and the posthumously published The History...

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Main Author: Sevilla, Anton Luis (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2016]
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 44, Issue: 4, Pages: 606-635
Further subjects:B Ethics
B Buddhism
B Watsuji Tetsurô
B Japanese Philosophy
B Emptiness
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