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Climate and Ethics: Ethical Implications of Watsuji Tetsuro's concepts: "Climate" and "Climaticity"

March 10, 2023

‘we find ourselves as an element in the “mutual relaitonship”—in “climate”

“the climate is, therefore, not only a physical space in which live human beings who are primarily “mutual relationship”, but also a metaphysical space which conditions a priori the realisation of the self as such a “mutual relationship”. The phenomena of climate are, therefore, nothing but a manifestation of the self as “we”” (47)

Fudo (climate) = “primordial space” of human beings

Fudo-sei (function of climate or climaticity) being a mode of appearance of the “subjective spatiality”

ningen (人間) - minimum unit of ningen is not an individual, it is a “betweenness” or a “mutual relationship” /implies spatiality
-individuals and the whole are united as one in their reciprocal negations — they exist simultaneously. their existence x static, it’s dynamic

True reality of an individual, as well as of totality, is “emptiness” 空 , and this emptiness is the absolute totality
: by evoking the “emptiness”, we arrive at the essence of human existence which is a “mutual relationship”

-> it is only accessible by expression, cannot be an object of observation itself

expressions of subjective human existence—intersubjective space—”phenomena of climate”

the invisible (the primordial space) functioning as a subject (concrete spaces and place like home, land, cultural essets)

Source: https://ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp/repo/ouka...
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