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Author(s): | Santos Alexandre, R. |
Date: | 2022 |
Title: | The interval between humans: A probe into the possibilities of being |
Journal title: | Culture and Psychology |
Volume: | 28 |
Number: | 1 |
Pages: | 65 - 87 |
Reference: | Santos Alexandre, R. (2022). The interval between humans: A probe into the possibilities of bein. Culture and Psychology, 28(1), 65-87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067X211017307 |
ISSN: | 1354-067X |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.1177/1354067X211017307 |
Keywords: | Being-with Ethics and morality Fusion of horizons Japan Self and person |
Abstract: | By taking as background a few examples from Japanese culture and society, as well as an ethnographic insight, this article reconsiders the way anthropology usually deals with and talks about issues regarding cultural differences in human relations. These issues, which start from the fact that different cultures articulate human relations in different ways, have as one of their main theoretical outcomes the analysis around the categories of “self” or “person.” However, within this move lies something akin to a “gestalt misconception” that reduces a shared moral understanding (human relations) to an analysis of conceptual categories and their cognitive, psychological, subjective (or other) processes. Alternatively, the article proposes a more dialogical approach informed by Gadamer’s idea of “dialog” and “fusion of horizons,” where one aims to learn from other cultures and not about them. As a result, some reflections of a philosophical, moral, and practical character are presented, leaving theoretical formulations about the “Japanese self” out of the equation. This article’s general purpose is not an exploration of “Japaneseness,” but rather a probe into the possibilities of Being. |
Peerreviewed: | yes |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | CRIA-RI - Artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com arbitragem científica |
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