Encounter with Enlightenment
(July 2001)
A Study of Japanese Ethics Robert E. Carter - Author Yasuo Yuasa - Foreword by
Examines the influence of Shintoµism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism on Japanese ethics, with implications for our understanding of various social, economic, and environmental problems.
In Encounter with Enlightenment, Robert E. Carter puts forth the East, and specifically Japan, as a source of possible solutions to the world's social, economic, and environmental problems. Not only is the b...(Read More)
Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku
(October 1996)
Ethics in Japan Watsuji Tetsuro - Author Seisaku Yamamoto - Translator Robert E. Carter - Translator
Watsuji'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.
Robert Carter has produced a wonderfully clear and lucid translation of Watsuji Tetsuro's masterpiece, Rinrigaku. Long known by comparative philosophers as a centerpiece of modern Japanese philosophical tradition, Carter has now ma...(Read More)
The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism
(October 1990)
Keiji Nishitani - Author Graham Parkes - Translator Setsuko Aihara - Translator
"As a past reader of Nishitani in both the original Japanese and English translation, I find this manuscript to be the most accessible and clearly written of any book-length work I have read by him. It shows Nishitani as a vital and vigorous thinker, and serves as an introduction to his widely acclaimed Religion and Nothingness.
"The summaries of the relation to nihilism of Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Stirner, ...(Read More)