Aristotle in Japan

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 and Education (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).

Introduction (Tomohiko Kondo, Koji Tachibana); Part I: Japanese Philosophers and Scholars on Aristotle; 1: The Reception History of Aristotle’s Theory of Moral Education in Japan (Koji Tachibana); 2: Tetsurô Watsuji’s Reception of Aristotle’s Political Philosophy (Kazutaka Inamura); 3: Doing Philosophy à la Aristotle: Tadashi Inoue’s Interpretation of Hypokeimenon (Kazuya Matsuura); 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; 5: Aristotle’s Ousia Reconsidered: Why We Should Not Translate or Understand the Term as Substance or Jittai (Masashi Nakahata); 6: Dialectical Reasoning in Rhetoric and Topics (Shogo Takahashi); 7: Naturalism and Parts of the Soul in Aristotle’s Ethics: De Anima and Nicomachean Ethics (Naoto Chatani); Part III: Updating Aristotle; 8: Intellectual Humility and Japan (Rie Iizuka); 9: Animals in a Just Polity: A Realist Neo-Aristotelian Overture (Yuko Kamishima); 10: The Virtue and Happiness of a Coach: Applying Aristotle’s Ethics to Sports Coaching (Shigeki Sarodo).