Title

Watsuji Tetsuro, Fudo, And Climate Change

Keywords

climate; Deleuze; environmental ethics; Fudo; Heidegger; trust; Watsuji

Abstract

In this paper, I wish to consider Watsuji Tetsuro's (1889-1960) concept of climate (fudo), and consider whether it contributes anything to the relationship between climate change and ethics. I will argue that superficially it seems that fudo tells us little about the ethics of climate change, but if considered more carefully, and through the lens of thinkers such as Deleuze and Heidegger, there is ethical insight in Watsuji's approach. Watsuji's major work in ethics, Rinrigaku, provides concepts such as between-ness and trust that enable his philosophy of climate to move from a theory of national characters (as Fudo is often seen to be) to an approach to living well within one's milieu. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.

Publication Date

8-1-2011

Publication Title

Journal of Global Ethics

Volume

7

Issue

2

Number of Pages

173-184

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2011.590277

Socpus ID

80052838078 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/80052838078

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