1st Edition
Aristotle in Japan Reception, Interpretation and Application
List of Contributors
Introduction
Tomohiko Kondo, Koji Tachibana
Part I: Japanese Philosophers and Scholars on Aristotle
Chapter 1: The Reception History of Aristotle’s Theory of Education in Japan
Koji Tachibana
Chapter 2: Tetsurô Watsuji’s Reception of Aristotle’s Political Philosophy
Kazutaka Inamura
Chapter 3: Doing Philosophy à la Aristotle: Tadashi Inoue’s Interpretation of Hypokeimenon
Kazuya Matsuura
Chapter 4: Before and Beyond Aristotle: Takashi Ide and Norio Fujisawa on Aristotle’s Ideal of Theōria
Tomohiko Kondo
Part II: New Trends in Aristotelian Scholarship in Japan
Chapter 5: Aristotle’s Ousia Reconsidered: Why We Should Not Translate or Understand the Term as 'Substance' or 'Jittai'
Masashi Nakahata
Chapter 6: Dialectical Reasoning in Rhetoric and Topics
Shogo Takahashi
Chapter 7: Naturalism and Parts of the Soul in Aristotle’s Ethics: De Anima and Nicomachean Ethics
Naoto Chatani
Part III: Updating Aristotle
Chapter 8: Intellectual Humility and Japan
Rie Iizuka
Chapter 9: Animals in a Just Polity: A Realist Neo-Aristotelian Overture
Yuko Kamishima
Chapter 10: The Virtue and Happiness of a Coach: Applying Aristotle’s Ethics to Sports Coaching
Shigeki Sarodo
Index
Biography
Tomohiko Kondo is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Letters, Keio University, Japan. His research focuses on Hellenistic and Roman philosophy, with published articles and book chapters on the Stoic, Platonic and Aristotelian traditions. He is also active in a collaborative project on the receptions of Greek and Roman antiquity in Japan.
Koji Tachibana is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Chiba University, Japan, and International Associate Scholar at Georgetown University Medical Center, USA. He is the editor of Alternative Virtues: Japanese Perspectives on Christian and Confucian Traditions (Routledge, 2025) and has published many articles, including ‘Virtue Ethics Embedded: Aristotelianism in the Post-War Japanese Moral Education’ (Journal of Moral Education, 2024) and ‘The Consciousness of Virtue’ (Frontiers in Psychology, 2024, with E. Nakazawa).
