La existencia humana en Miguel de Unamuno y Tetsuro Watsuji

Abstract

Though Miguel de Unamuno and Tetsuro Watsuji, the Japanese philosopher born 25 years later, were brought up in different environments, both of their lives were essentially involved in nature. According to Watsuji, human existence is concrete but is a relationship between persons rather than existence as an individual. The human being as interpreted by him is a self-comprehension based on the ancient Japanese animistic observation of nature, and hence personal death is not death of an individual but integration into nature. On the other hand, human existence according to Unamuno starts from the consciousness of the limited individual, and scenery is an existence that arouses the self but is not a place to be buried. In his pursuit of immortality, he finds eternity in scenery, which gradually changes to the scenery of the soul.