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Work #578 · Mid

Climate and Culture (Fūdo: ningengakuteki kōsatsu)

Watsuji Tetsurō
1935 · Japanese
Philosophical anthropology · Japanese Kyoto School / Watsuji ethics

Watsuji's 1935 Fūdo — climate as the ground of cultural-philosophical difference

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Attribute Climate and Culture (Fūdo: ningengakuteki kōsatsu) (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Cosmic-ordering
Observer · Moral Authority Tradition
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Climate and Culture (Fūdo: ningengakuteki kōsatsu)

The historical time of cultural-climatic formation.

Space

Climate and Culture (Fūdo: ningengakuteki kōsatsu)

Central — climate-environment as foundational space.

Matter

Climate and Culture (Fūdo: ningengakuteki kōsatsu)

The embodied climatically-conditioned human person.

Observer

Climate and Culture (Fūdo: ningengakuteki kōsatsu)

The climatically-formed human community.

Energy

Climate and Culture (Fūdo: ningengakuteki kōsatsu)

Energies of climate and cultural formation.

Information

Climate and Culture (Fūdo: ningengakuteki kōsatsu)

Climate-anthropological framework.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Climate and Culture (Fūdo: ningengakuteki kōsatsu)

Watsuji's anti-Heideggerian spatialization of existence is foundational for intercultural and ecological philosophy.