Looking East for Ethics: Tetsuro Watsuji’s Notions of Privacy, Trust, and Mutuality

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Abstract

This paper seeks to advance the idea of communitarianism, which arose just twenty-five years ago in Western studies of media ethics, as a viable and valuable media ethics by connecting it to notions espoused more than three quarters of a century ago by Tetsuro Watsuji, a Japanese philosopher whose notions of privacy, trust, and mutuality have been largely ignored by media scholars in the West.

Authors

• Rick Kenney, Georgia Regents U

• Kimiko Akita, U of Central Florida