Abstrakt
In the present paper, I examine the notion of space-time as found in Watsuji Tetsurō's thought. My concern is focused mostly on Watsuji's phenomenological approach as described in the first chapter Climate and Culture (Fūdo風土) and ninth, tenth, and eleventh chapter of Ethics (Rinrigaku 倫理学) concerning spatiality and temporality of human being.
Here time and space are not treated as objective quantities, but as "derived" from a human being subjectively related to space-time. This relation to time and space necessarily involves history as well as other human beings because the individual is never divorced from his environment.
In its essence, the whole relational structure is ever-changing, and so is the human being contextualized by the spatial and temporal settings. Interactions of space-time shape subjective, concrete, everyday living.
The aim of my paper is not to explain space-time as a static framework for being, I attempt rather to disclose, based on Watsuji's view, how subjective space-time of human being is developed and structured.